Vikram-betal Quotes & Sayings

A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed. — Vikrmn

Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity. — Vikrmn

Workers of lungless labs- when dying
Will you be proud you were midwife
To implements exemplifying
Assaults against the heart of life?
You knew their purpose, yet you made them.
If you had scruples, you betrayed them.
What pastoral response acquits
Those who made ovens for Auschwitz?
Indeed it is said that the banality
Of evil is its greatest shock.
It jokes. It punches its time clock,
Plays with its kids. The triviality
Of slaughtering millions can't impinge
Upon its peace, or make it cringe. — Vikram Seth

All this time, he thought magic had chosen him. Maybe magic never chose. Maybe it had always been about the fit. A key latching into a hole. Maybe there had been just enough holes in him for magic to slip through and hook him like spurs into cloth. — Roshani Chokshi

We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time. — Vikrmn

If you want to fly you need to grow up, to grow up you need to be a kid again. To be a kid again you have to just be yourself; so come out of your cozy comfort zone, Yell out and break the boundaries your are stuck in.. Then only you can fly. — Vikrmn

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away, — Vikram Seth

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything. — Vikram Seth

Doesn't matter if you can dream it or not, all that matters is if you can begin it or not? Take that first step. — Vikrmn

Those thinking Why, When, Where, Who are information providers; the one thinking "HOW" is the leader in solving the problem. — Vikrmn

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge. — Vikram Seth

Be a bright student of the teacher called Life. — Vikrmn

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. — Vikram Seth

Man without life companion is either god or beast. — Vikram Seth

Vicious and sweet," said Vikram, shaking his head. "Beastly girl."
"You like me, don't lie," I teased.
"I couldn't lie if I tried," he said quietly. — Roshani Chokshi

Life is not easy for anyone here. Loss and fear, failure and disappointment, pain and ill-health, doubt and death-even those who have escaped from poverty have no escape from these. What makes life bearable is love-to love, to be loved, and-even after death or parting-to know that you have loved and been loved. — Vikram Seth

His hope was cold. Poisonous. Eclipsing. And he
fed it anyway, the way someone feeds something out of habit simply because there is nothing else in their life worth growing. — Roshani Chokshi

VIKRAM SHANKAR SQUINTED DOWN the long metal barrel. Framed squarely in the sight, not two hundred feet away, the white tiger sat on its haunches, its lower jaw drooping, ribs rippling under a mat of chocolate-striped fur. A sweet shot. Vikram's right finger closed over the trigger. He inhaled slowly, deliberately. Too seasoned a hunter to let the thrill overcome judgment, he took his time, savoring the anticipation. — Phoenix Sullivan

Be the master of your dreams, not a slave of your sorrows. — Vikrmn

Happiness is.. doing something you love and loving something you do. — Vikrmn

If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption? — Vikrmn

Irony; we want to dance like robots and want robots to dance like us. — Vikrmn

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above
Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years. — Vikram Seth

Who said I won't fail? I might. Who said I might give up? I won't. — Vikrmn

Don't kill but conquer, the Ravana in you. — Vikrmn

Beware of will power. It damages your giving-up skills. — Vikrmn

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say. — Vikram Seth

How do you feel? "
"Like I will die if I don't eat this apple."
He considered this. "Then why don't you bite it? See what happens."
"Are you mad? "
"I prefer curious. — Roshani Chokshi

I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe. — Vikrmn

Laugh at life before life laughs at you. — Vikrmn

Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity. — Vikrmn

Let's not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts. — Vikrmn

YOU are born the day you find YOURSELF. — Vikrmn

The difference between a signature and an autograph is that the second one has higher face value on a plain paper than the first one even on a cheque. — Vikrmn

Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory. — Vikrmn

Gift the children corruption free nation. Happy Children's day. — Vikrmn

The road to success is built up as you travel, its blue print never exists. — Vikrmn

Excess of everything is worst; even if it is best otherwise. — Vikrmn

Life is like a painting; make yours a masterpiece. — Vikrmn

Recipe of SUCCESS needs tons of morale, flavor of attitude and hours of patience to cook. — Vikrmn

CA student is composition of a Compassionate, Cheerful, and Cool aspirant. I will be a Chartered Accountant. — Vikrmn

Get fired, no one will call you a quitter. — Vikrmn

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy. — Vikram Seth

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough. — Vikram Chatwal

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. — Vikram Sarabhai

Before I left Alaka, I told Vikram I didn't know myself. Now I was
staring at the depths of what that meant. Heroine. Savior. Villain. What were those words but different fistfuls of a tale that all depended on who was doing the telling? You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child before sleep. A story is control. I saw it now. Felt the talons of that truth scrape through me. — Roshani Chokshi

I want you - " he started.
I glowered, pressing the chair leg into his neck. "I would die before I let you touch me."
"What an improvement. First it was me who would die. Now it is
you who offers to die before touching me," he said. "Another man might be insulted. Now, if you would allow me to finish - "
I glared. — Roshani Chokshi

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live. — Vikram Seth

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in. — Vikram Seth

Learn to uncrumple yourself, for life and people are always gung ho to crush you. — Vikrmn

CA means Charismatic Amalgamation of great experiences of life. I am a Chartered Accountant. — Vikrmn

Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18. — Vikram Seth

Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing ... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby. — Vikram Seth

Strength is not only about winning the game; it's also about not giving-up. — Vikrmn

Be different.. be yourself. — Vikrmn

Every vision has its own rainbow; The day you realise your vision you'll see your rainbow. — Vikrmn

They say well begun half done; but Perseverance on the way down takes you up to a great end. — Vikrmn

Joy is temporary, Happiness is permanent; for it comes out from positive mind and is an art of tension free heart. — Vikrmn

One sock can't house two feet. If it does, it's of no use. — Vikrmn

The moment you think you are out of resources; you still have one thing, Will to Win. Ignite it. — Vikrmn

When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on. — Vikram Seth

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters. — Vikram Seth

Dream? What it is? If you realise it, it's everything; if not, continue the slumber. — Vikrmn

Say Thanks" is sometimes more important than "Say Cheese". — Vikrmn

Tough is to innovate; else you are just competing with photocopy machines. — Vikrmn

Gauri laughed when he stumbled through the movements of the dance.
"You are a discredit to your title, Vikram. Fox Prince, indeed," she said. "I've never seen a clumsier fox."
"What I lack in skill, I make up for in enthusiasm."
"Do you even know how to dance?"
"Not at all," he said, spinning her in a circle.
"I can tell. Were you lulled by the music?"
"The company."
"Now you're just trying to be sly and charming."
"I am a credit to my title, after all. — Roshani Chokshi

Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it under self-control
Krishna, the mind is faltering,
violent, strong, and stubborn;
I find it as difficult
to hold as the wind. — Vikram Seth

Have some faith."
"Between faith and distrust, which one is more likely to keep you alive?"
"And which one is more likely to let you experience living?"
I threw up my hands. "Why is everything so philosophical with you?"
He shrugged. "I like thinking. — Roshani Chokshi

All that falls is not bad. — Vikrmn

He stared at me. "Are you done? "
"Yes."
"May I get up? "
"No."
"I see you like your men with their egos gutted."
"Only when I'm feeling generous. — Roshani Chokshi

Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so. — Vikrmn

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics. — Vikram Roy

Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours. — Vikrmn

Work to live up to your dreams and fantasies; to hell with them who ask you to come back to reality. — Vikrmn

If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman — Vikram Mansharamani

Best Quote of the day: Don't just sit and read the Quote of the day; Implement it. — Vikrmn

Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH. — Vikrmn

Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman. — Vikrmn

Every Vision has its own rainbow. — Vikrmn

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter. — Vikram Chatwal

Give your best. It doesn't mean you'll get back best. Rather that doesn't mean you give up giving your best. — Vikrmn

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink — Vikram Seth

There is only one mother in this world who is the best one; the one that every kid has got. — Vikrmn

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.'
Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. — Vikram Seth

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook. — Vikram Seth

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose. — Vikram Roy

Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable. — Vikram Seth

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation. — Vikram Seth

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them. — Vikram Seth

Have rum; I mean, have fun. Don't overdose. Cheers. — Vikrmn

When the wind is against you, like a kite, have your chord of faith rooted and you would fly highest ever. — Vikrmn

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated. — Vikram Seth

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure. — Vikram Seth

I'll always wait for you. Bye! Gotta go. — Vikrmn

A leader is not born; Teachers make the one. — Vikrmn

CA study course in India is not the toughest study course. It's for them who are the toughest, the determined ones. I am a Chartered Accountant. — Vikrmn

One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders. — Vikram Sarabhai

Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are. — Vikrmn

In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me. — Vikram Seth

Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years. — Vikrmn