Vikram Ashwan Quotes

Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut! ~ S.J. Kincaid

He was almost at his door when Vik's earsplitting shriek resounded down the corridor. Tom was glad for the excuse to sprint back toward him. "Vik?"
He reached Vik's doorway as Vik was backing out of it. "Tom," he breathed, "it's an abomination."
Confused, Tom stepped past him into the bunk. Then he gawked, too.
Instead of a standard trainee bunk of two small beds with drawers underneath them and totally bare walls, Vik's bunk was virtually covered with images of their friend Wyatt Enslow. There were posters all over the wall with Wyatt's solemn, oval face on them. She wore her customary scowl, her dark eyes tracking their every move through the bunk. There was a giant marble statue of a sad-looking Vik with a boot on top of its head. The Vik statue clutched two very, very tiny hands together in a gesture of supplication, its eyes trained upward on the unseen stomper, an inscription at its base, WHY, OH WHY, DID I CROSS WYATT ENSLOW?
Tom began to laugh.
"She didn't do it to the bunk," Vik insisted. "She must've done something to our processors."
That much was obvious. If Wyatt was good at anything, it was pulling off tricks with the neural processors, which could pretty much be manipulated to show them anything. This was some sort of illusion she was making them see, and Tom heartily approved.
He stepped closer to the walls to admire some of the photos pinned there, freeze-frames of some of Vik's more embarrassing moments at the Spire: that t ~ S.J. Kincaid

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

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke. ~ Vikram Seth

Unclaimed

To make love with a stranger is the best.
There is no riddle and there is no test. –

To lie and love, not aching to make sense
Of this night in the mesh of reference.

To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day,
And understand, as only strangers may.

To feel the beat of foreign heart to heart
Preferring neither to prolong nor part.

To rest within the unknown arms and know
That this is all there is; that this is so. ~ Vikram Seth

You are known by the thoughts you seed. ~ Vikrmn

Curing cancer affects good cells in short run too but makes a life flourish in long term. Curing corruption affects good people in short run too but makes a nation flourish in long term. ~ Vikrmn

Every TODAY has a better version, called TOMORROW. ~ Vikrmn

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know. ~ Vikram Seth

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

Put your backbone where your wishbone is. ~ Vikram Seth

How ridiculous," said Princess Farukhuaz, reclining upon a pillow. "A waste of a perfectly good king, all to pacify a few villagers who might have fared as well with a decent exorcist. Nobility is overrated."
"Perhaps," said the nurse. "On the other hand, Vikram might have a greater part to play as a vetala than as a king. The right thing to do and the smart thing to do are not always the same. Only the Lord of Lords knows all, and He created the world three-parts unseen. ~ G. Willow Wilson

To create a new belief is easy but to understand and improve someone's concept and to develop it for good is difficult. ~ Vikram Roy

It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me. ~ Bipasha Basu

Character builds on characters. Very few recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one. ~ Vikram Roy

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one. ~ Vikram Seth

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

Of course," mused Vikram, oblivious to Alif's noncommittal demeanor, "there were days when the world was crawling with walis and prophets who could stare right at us, but that was a long time ago. Now it's different. Now you are more interested in the veil between man and photon than the one between man and jinn."
"Good," muttered Alif, becoming uncomfortable.
"So you say, but you may think differently when you discover all roads of inquiry end in the same place. ~ G. Willow Wilson

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. ~ Vikram Seth

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

Let's fall, or rather rise, in Love. ~ Vikrmn

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

I wish you happiness, Vikram Singh." "And I you, meraa dost - my greatest friend. ~ Renee Ahdieh

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.' ~ Vikram Seth

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

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

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

Ladder of success is made by nails of Patience. ~ Vikrmn

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

How can you tell drops not to fall when rain exists ...
How can you tell leaves not to fall when wind exist ...
And how can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist ... ~ Vikram

Sunshine, external, is universal; internal, the eternal. Choose; shine. ~ Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

Being lucky is in your hands as it's outcome of your deeds. ~ Vikrmn

Do as gas balloons do, while in depression; inhale helium of happiness and fly high. ~ Vikrmn

When you say "SOMEDAY I'll Live my dreams," that is the eighth day of the week; it never comes. Start working for your dreams TODAY. ~ Vikrmn

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

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him. ~ Vikram Seth

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

Life kicks you on the face, especially the moment you take the helmet off your head to stop and rest. ~ Vikrmn

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman. ~ Vikram Seth