"People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk."
Stephen King
"I work until beer o'clock."
Stephen King
"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet."
Stephen King
"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
Stephen King
"When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.""
Stephen King
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them"
Stephen King
“At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.”
Muhammad Ali
“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. “
Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness”
Honore' de Balzac
“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. “
Gustave Flaubert
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein
“‘Why it is that we and the universe exist?’ ---- If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.”
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time, Chapter. 11
“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
Mark Twain, U.S. author. Following the Equator, Chapter. 43
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Mark Twain
“My father was a statesman, I’m a political woman. My father was a saint. I’m not”
Indira Gandhi
“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.”
Robert Frost
“I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.”
Mason Cooley
“When everything is lost, future still remains.”
C.A. Bovee
“The top of the world is not a mountain. It’s a place inside of you from where you can decide to sit and watch. Or put on your shoes and dance.”
Anonymous
“There are no perfect men in this world; only perfect intentions.”
Anonymous
“Auditing is for those who find accounting too exciting. They wander around the battlefield long after the action bayoneting the wounded.”
Anonymous
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration”
Charles Dickens
“A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”
Anonymous
“There are 10 types of people in the world, one who understand BINARY and those who don’t. “
Anonymous
“What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest--whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection--than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?”
Warren Buffett
"Playing golf you learn a form of meditation. For the fours hours you are on the course, you learn to focus on the game and clean your mind of worrisome thoughts. Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have!!”
Harvey Penick
“The day we lose our passion and give up on dreams is the day we are defeated. Do yourself a favor. Don’t get lost in the sea of conformity.”
Anonymous
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
Carl W. Buechner
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Dorothy Nevill
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.’ “
Mary Anne Radmacher
“Diversification is a protection against ignorance.”
Warren Buffett
“Don’t give a hug when a handshake will do.”
Charles Stanfield, Head of Champagnes and Sparkling Wines at Sam’s
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
Humphrey Bogart
“You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one, but the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You just have to determine how much leaking you can tolerate.”
Arthur Rudolph
“We are the people we have been waiting for.”
VDS Team, MIT
"Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching."
Placard at Sydney Cricket Ground ‘08
“Its not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years”
Anonymous
"Although not all change is always going to lead to improvement, without change, there simply can not be any improvement."
Anonymous
"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world"
Ernest Hemingway
“I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.' “
Jon Stewart on Presidential Election ‘08
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
Elbert Hubbard
"Leg-spinners pose problems much like love, Requiring commitment, the taking of a chance. Halfway deludes; the bold advance."
Alan Ross
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
Bill Gates
“A husband should never try to teach his wife to play golf or drive a car. A wife should never try to teach her husband to play bridge.”
Harvey Penick
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”
Bob Marley
“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
PG Wodehouse
“Yeah the rythm of the game just like the rythm of life ... Inside each
and every one of us is one true authentic swing... Somethin' we was born
with... Somethin' that's ours and ours alone... Somethin' that can't be
taught to ya or learned... Somethin' that got to be remembered... Over
time the world can, rob us of that swing... It get buried inside us
under all our wouldas and couldas and shouldas... Some folk even forget
what their swing was like.”
Bangger Vance, The Legend of Bangger Vance
“It all depends on how you look at a million dollars. What looks like a lot of money to you isn't to me. So what seems like a risk to you isn't one for me."
Allen Stanford
“Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.” Michael Caine
“I ‘m so far behind, I thought I was first”
Anonymous
“Less is More”
Anonymous
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some get it as a graduation gift.”
Robin Williams on George W. Bush
“War is God’s way of teaching American geography.”
Ambrose Bierce
“THE honest truth is, for a comedian, even death is just a premise to make jokes about. I know this because I was on the phone with George Carlin nine days ago and we were making some death jokes. We were talking about Tim Russert and Bo Diddley and George said: ‘I feel safe for a while. There will probably be a break before they come after the next one. I always like to fly on an airline right after they've had a crash. It improves your odds.’ ”
Jerry Seinfeld
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind is a greater gainer by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”
John Stuart Mill
“Nothing in this world worth having comes easy”
Bob Kelso, Scrubs
“if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans”
David Davis Jr., Univ. of Michigan Commencement Ceremony 2004
"But every time we felt low, we had an escape route. One glimpse of Dada stepping out of the crease, or Jam leaving a sharp bouncer alone, or Kumble firing in a yorker, was an uplifting experience. So what if India lost? Could any of those Pakistani batsmen even dream of batting like Sachin or VVS?"
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, Cricinfo.com
"We are running an uncontrolled experiment on the only home we have.”
William Collins
"In some ways, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.”
Viktor Frankl
"When Tendulkar is happy, usually so is the rest of India.”
Sidharth Monga, Cricinfo.com
“You write in order to change the world…. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
James Baldwin
“It was said of Cicero that when people heard him, they turned to one another and said, ‘Great speech’; but when Demosthenes spoke, people turned to one another and said, ‘Let's march.’ All around the world people are marching with Barack Obama.”
Gordon Brown
“Math is like Love – a simple idea but it can get complicated.”
R Drabek
“I'm an academic. My mind tells me I will never understand God. My heart tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift that I have yet to receive.”
Tom Hanks, Robert Langdon, Angels and Demons.
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings,"
William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar.
“Rahul Dravid is like the musician plucking each note carefully, a scientist doing a titration where each drop matters. Sehwag might wonder at the need for it."
Harsha Bhogle
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
Robert Frost
"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.' "
"As long as we’re worried about the future, the future will be better."
Happines comes from the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, and what the world needs. We’ve been told time and again to keep finding the first. Our schools helped developed the second. It’s time we put more thought on the third.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
and every one of us is one true authentic swing... Somethin' we was born
with... Somethin' that's ours and ours alone... Somethin' that can't be
taught to ya or learned... Somethin' that got to be remembered... Over
time the world can, rob us of that swing... It get buried inside us
under all our wouldas and couldas and shouldas... Some folk even forget
what their swing was like.”
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