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Vir Das Quotes

In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don't have to struggle that much.

Vir Das

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: indian
Birth: May 31, 1979

Topics

Struggle People Week You Unique New

People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

Jodhi May

Attitude People Reality Interesting

If the people in the emergency room didn't know my name, they definitely knew my face because I was in there, like, every other week. I was one of those kids.

Robert Mathis

People Face Name Week Know Room

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

Matt Mullenweg

Past Only Millennium Conceit

I landed in 1980 in Bangkok, and I stopped to eat ten times between the airport and the hotel. It was all lemongrass and ginger and chilies.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Hotel Airport Eat Bangkok Between

If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the burning aftermath.

Amitava Kumar

Age Travel Flight Events Burning

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.

Steve Erickson

American Landscape Blossom Values

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

Alvar Aalto

Life Lie Problems Search Values Way

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Rush Limbaugh

New York Story I Can New Honest

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance Man Rest Pillow Head His

I don't like boys. They're kind of annoying.

Michelle Wie

Kind Annoying Like

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Mo Udall

Wisdom Words Tomorrow Gentle Eat Us

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Donald Rumsfeld

Politics Win You Lose Run First