Manoj > Manoj's Quotes

“the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself”
― Umberto Eco

“Hatred of popular culture was to define a generation of American intellectuals and their claim to a superior sensibility.”
― Anonymous

“To him (Bal Thackeray) all southerners were Madrasis and all northerners, Bhaiyyas… He”
― Vaibhav Purandare, Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena

“Thackeray aggressively put forward his theory of Thokshahi and called it ‘constructive violence’,”
― Vaibhav Purandare, Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena

“What is Supreme in this nation? The Court, Parliament, or the Muslims of Bhendi Bazaar?114”
― Vaibhav Purandare, Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
― Anonymous

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. What”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“It seemed a shame to bargain with one who had learned the tricks of guarding her business, of protecting her trade against greedy intruders.”
― Murzban F. Shroff, Breathless in Bombay: Stories

“Give me your glass,” he said. She surrendered her glass obediently.”
― Murzban F. Shroff, Breathless in Bombay: Stories

“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance… A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary… More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.”
― Anonymous

“creation is recreation,”
― Anonymous

“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will”
― Stendhal

“man defends marriage because he is really defending his pleasures, the woman is even more vehement on the same side because she is defending her only means of livelihood.”
― Anonymous

“If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them … they could perceive what they have made of us.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

“The oppressed, subaltern, therefore, cannot speak through another and cannot articulate on their own.]”
― Anonymous

“You can only deconstruct that which you know intimately. It is not a weapon of the weak; it can only be done from a position of strength because the weak do not have the social ability to enter those discourses.”
― Anonymous

“You have to work to rearrange people’s desires. What they want has to change. What they do will follow.”
― Anonymous

“Early success gives people the resources, confidence and connections that can be used to create later success. ”
― Anonymous

“Fear means we do not listen to criticism. We”
― Anonymous

“Shiva is a strange god, the epitome of the sort of person a man would not want his daughter to marry: He is a yogi who has vowed never to marry, he has a third eye in the middle of his forehead, he wanders around naked or wearing nothing but a loincloth woven of living snakes, he has no family, and he lives not in a house but in a cremation ground, smearing his body with the ashes of corpses. It is therefore not surprising that both his potential fathers-in-law object strenuously to him.”
― Anonymous

“for every 100 in funding for e-commerce companies, 40 went to firms founded by an Agarwal”.”
― Anonymous

“Harry Truman said after the bombing of Hiroshima: “I never lost any sleep over my decision.”110”
― Anonymous

“we have to bear in mind that culture is not necessarily transmitted in proportion to people's numbers. One charismatic personality will suffice to release a chain reaction. One”
― Gerhard Kubik, Africa and the Blues

“Blues is both a literary and a musical genre, and the two realms are inseparably linked by the very forces that also bind together music and text in most African cultures: semantic and grammatical tone, phonetic structure leading to offbeat phrasing of melodic accents (Waterman 1952; Kubik 196ia: 157-58. 1988a: 149-52), and the concept-widespread in African cultures-that the meaning of a song derives from its lyrics rather than from "melody," "rhythm," or chord sequences.”
― Gerhard Kubik, Africa and the Blues

“We are neither leftists nor rightists. We are typists.” The post-script to that story is that he said this not meekly, as most would assume, but assertively – because no government, left or right, could run without typists.”
― Kamu Iyer, Boombay: From Precincts To Sprawl

“India’s entrepreneurship pipeline will only scale with bootstrapping. There is no other way, given the hand of cards.     - Sramana Mitra”
― Sramana Mitra, Seed India: How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap In India