Simi Raghavan > Simi's Quotes

“Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Mini Shopaholic

“sometimes i feel like a great chef
who has devoted his entire life
to monastic study of the art of cooking
& gathered the finest ingredients
& built the most advanced kitchen
& prepared the most exquisite meal
so perfect, so delicious, so extraordinary
more astounding than any meal ever created
yet each day i stand in my window
& watch ninety-seven percent of the world
walk past my restaurant
into the mcdonald's
across the street”
― Fake Steve Jobs, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs

“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
― H.L. Mencken

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
― Michael Levine

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
― Charles Schultz

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
― Brian Tracy

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
― Helen Keller

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
― Robert Heinlein

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.
-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)”
― Robert Jordan

“Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)”
― Brandon sanderson

“Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."
-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?"
-Brandon Sanderson
(Elantris)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris