Vikram Seth Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: June 20, 1952

Topics

HappyMeReadingFollowInterest

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

Joe Manchin

GunKnowOwnAnybody

The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.

Jennifer Dunn

FamilyDeathGenerationResultTax

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Soledad O'Brien

LifeGodBridgeWorldReadingThink

We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.

Sidney Buchman

WorkActionProblemsPoliticalParty

You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.

Trisha Yearwood

LifeYouBackGoPlatinumDeal

I'm glad I went through the 'TUF' experience.

Rose Namajunas

ExperienceThroughGlad

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

MyselfRegretsVainAllow

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Marvin Gaye

BestOpponentYourMeansNegotiating

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

Jon Lovitz

PeopleThinkLoanSome PeopleGot

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

Don Nickles

WorldThinkPlaceHappenGreatest

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.

Christie Brinkley

LifeLife Is Too ShortShortToo

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

Christopher Columbus

PurposeI AmGraceMeEnjoyMercy

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