Vignesh Sundaresan Quotes & Sayings

I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room. — Scott Ellis

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead. — Horace Pippin

So you open your mouth and listen to yourself say, "I want eight thousand a day. Plus expenses."
This is the polite, industry-standard way of saying "piss off, I'm not interested." You did the math over your morning coffee: You want to earn 100K a year, what with those bonuses you've been pulling on top of your salary. (Besides, a euro doesn't buy what it used to.) There are 250 working days in a year, and a contractor works for roughly 40 per cent of the time, so you need to charge yourself out at 2.5 times your payroll rate, or 1000 a day in order to meet your target. Not interested in the job? Pitch unrealistically high. You never know ...
"Done," says Mr. Pin-Stripe, staring at you expressionlessly. And it is at that point that you realize you are well and truly fucked. — Charles Stross

Plunging into the depths of hell, re-opening the gates to wounds and emotions that we have long tried to keep sealed and locked within, we discover that that the devil is not the Herculean ruler of darkness that we had imagined, but only a vulnerable and devastated child. With honesty and without judgment, we must muster the courage to meet this innocent child with whom we have come to label as the devil. — Forrest Curran

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. — Pierre Corneille

If you say bullshit on things come in handy,
better revise it before others say otherwise. — Toba Beta

My professional opinion and diagnosis as a graphic designer and photographer is that Kate Gosselin is mentally ill — Robert Hoffman

So Billy experiences death for a while. It is simply violet light and a hum. There isn't anybody else there. Not even Billy Pilgrim is there. — Kurt Vonnegut

Yes, Bob, I rather thought entity-relationship diagrams were your sort of thing. You're the expert in Visio, aren't you? Drawing up UML diagrams of fictional vampire brood hierarchies should keep you out of trouble for a while. — Charles Stross

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em? — Thomas Hardy