Vikram Seth Quotes

Imagining the flower-pot attacked itThe kitten flung the violets near and farAnd yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it,My car was set upon by a parked car.

Vikram Seth

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• Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Way

• Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Car
  • Luxury

• I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Morning

• First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Car

• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Love
  • Books
  • Unknown

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Morning
  • Tomorrow
  • Evening

• The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Car

• The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Change
  • Car
  • Wings

• I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Good
  • Car
  • Problems

• I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Racing
  • Cars
  • Adrenaline

• My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Car
  • Green
  • Transportation

• He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Game
  • Morning
  • Loves

• We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Good
  • Remember

• Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

  

  Peter Welch
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Star

• I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Family
  • Money
  • Fun

• It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Small

• There is too little courtship in the world.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Little
  • Courtship

• Imagining the flower-pot attacked itThe kitten flung the violets near and farAnd yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it,My car was set upon by a parked car.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Morning
  • Car
  • Flower