R. Madhavan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
-
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
-
On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.
-
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
-
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
-
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
-
Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
-
It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
-
Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
-
I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
-
Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
-
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
-
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
-
If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
-
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
-
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
-
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
-
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
-
On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
-
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
-
Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
-
At the far end of the room, upon a moldering dais, a shabby man sat upon a battered thrown. A dingy rag bound his eyes, a tarnished crown rested upon his grey hair, and a grimy green robe edged in dirty white fur enshrouded his body. He looked like some homeless guy playing the part of a wise man in a soup kitchen Christmas pageant.
-
Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.
-
I am a south Indian, so I speak Tamil.
