Vikram Seth Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PaintingEyeYouArtistRightSee

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

Jennifer Granholm

LiveExperienceSpaceWorldSomeone

I'm happy every day that I get up and I'm alive.

Matthew Gray Gubler

DayHappyEvery DayAliveUpGet

I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'

Mary Quant

MyselfWomanFunThinkYouLucky

Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

Johnny Flynn

PeopleLanguageLearnSomeoneDoing

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

Dickey Betts

FamilyPoorFloridaUpPrettyYour

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

Demi Lovato

GreatMeWantYearsMusicianTakes

The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.

Douglas Booth

ManYouLooksYoungBoyFirst

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Susan Sontag

LogicGuiltInnocenceVictimsTerms

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

Shane West

MeWeirdYearMoreSeniorLittle

If following your passion to a place where there's no pain probably isn't the business, I don't think an entrepreneur can sustain in a place where you don't have passion.

Scott Cook

BusinessPassionPainThinkYou

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

Todd Barry

StrangeOpeningUpSeemsAgain

'Goon' is very much an action - it's got a lot of heart, it's got a lot of comedy, it's got a lot of similarities to what I think was successful in 'Deadpool,' and so I think it's not a stretch to compare those two things and say the world is a little more ready than they used to be for this kind of material.

Tim Miller

HeartWorldActionThinkComedySay

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