Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Gene Wilder: Neurotic
“So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I’m doing that, then I snap out of it.” —Gene Wilder.
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Gene Wilder: Invention
“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” —Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.
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Gene Wilder: God
“I never thought of it as God. I didn’t know what to call it. I don’t believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.” —Gene Wilder.
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William James: Non-interference
“The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.” —William James.
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Karan Johar: Celebrating bodies
“I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why are we told to be shy? I am not suggesting that we should go around flashing ourselves and I am not referring to sex and all the complications that come with it.” —Karan Johan, film director.
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Ai Weiwei: Power
“In a society like China there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you power can crush you any time you want.” —Ai Weiwei.
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Gene Wilder: Morons
“What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.” —Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles
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Gene Wilder: Right track
“If I can make my wife laugh, I know I’m on the right track.” —Gene Wilder.
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Sam Peckinpah: Great streak of violence
“There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channelled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.” —Sam Peckinpah.
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Hillary Clinton: Hairstyle
“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Abhay Deol: Hindi-indie
“So if we have a category called indie cinema which ticks a few boxes, such as it’s not star driven, not necessarily a musical, doesn’t have the same access to funds that mainstream Bollywood does, then perhaps that movie can be financed differently. Of course, people may misuse it, but that doesn’t mean it should…
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Lauren Oliver: Hours and minutes
“Even as each minute seems to take an hour, each hour seems to fly by in a minute.” —Lauren Oliver.
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Mohan Bhagwat: Cultures
“In a diverse world, every culture has to be respected and when all cultures are respected, the world will flourish.” —Mohan Bhagwat, RSS chief.
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Carl Jung: Addiction
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” —Carl Jung.
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Germaine Greer: Machismo
“The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.” —Germaine Greer.
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Adora Svitak: Not jaded or cynical
“Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.” —Adora Svitak.
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Amjad Ali Khan: Music
“Music is a precious gift of God, and like flowers, colour, fragrance, water, fire, and air, musical notes do not belong to any religion.” —Amjad Ali Khan.
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Edward de Bono: Listening
“Listening to a subject about which you are uninformed is potentially more interesting than just repeating what you already know.” —Edward De Bono.
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Edward de Bono : Thinking
“Rodin, in his famous statue ‘The Thinker’, did thinking a great disservice by showing thinking as heavy and solemn. It can also be light and fun.” —Edward De Bono.
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Edward de Bono : Perception
“Perception is real even when it is not reality. Perception is how you see things, and you feel and react according to what you see—regardless of the underlying reality.” —Edward De Bono.
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Dorothy Thompson: Feeling nothing
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” —Dorothy Thompson.
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Patricia Cornwell: Survival and success
“Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.” —Patricia Cornwell.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: Right to swing my fist
“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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James E Faust: Efforts and scholarship
“We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.”—James E Faust.
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Isaac Rosenfield: Justice
“No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.”—Isaac Rosenfield.
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William Faulkner: Practiced freedom
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” —William Faulkner.
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Carrie Jones: Freedom and courage
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” —Carrie Jones, author.
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Miguel Ruiz: Take nothing personally
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.” —Miguel Ruiz, author.
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Shekhar Kapur: Why are you complaining?
Lessons of Life : Nothing in this universe exists unless there is a force opposing it. Nothing can. So why are you complaining ?
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Alia Bhatt: Acting and pedigree
“Some actors need to realise that there is a big world out there and there could be a possibility that you didn’t make it big in the movies because you just didn’t have it in you. If you are talented, it will surely get you somewhere. There’s no denying that it is harder for the…
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Alia Bhatt: Faces
“As actors you’re constantly very aware of yourself and how you’re being perceived and what you’re projecting. So I have multiple faces — my sad face, my happy face, my humble face, my naughty face, my enthusiastic face. One face for every occasion.” —Alia Bhatt.
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Jules Verne: A question of time
‘Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. —Jules Verne.
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Ram Madhav: Trolling
“Trolling is bad. Everyone faces it. But it has now become a grievance industry. Let us not invent grievances and play victim. You have to learn to deal with it.”—Ram Madhav, BJP leader.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Obviously untrue
“Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue.”—Kurt Vonnegut.
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Lao-Tze: Water
“Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.”—Lao-Tze.
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Jeffrey McDaniel: Letting things go
“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” —Jeffrey McDaniel.
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Jubin Nautiyal: Romantic love
“With romantic love, there’s only one mantra: “If it comes, let it come. If it goes, let it go!” —Jubin Nautiyal, singer.
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Abiola Abrams: Moving on toolkit
“Your moving on toolkit should have: personalised self-care, forgiveness, healing tools like talk therapy, journalling for emotional purging.” —Abiola Abrams.
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Daphne Rose Kingma: Letting go
“Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” —Daphne Rose Kingma.
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Greek Proverb: Last night
“I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.”— Greek proverb.
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Leo Buscaglia: Paradoxical
“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” —Leo Buscaglia, author (31 Mar 1924-1998).
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Milan Kundera: Mankind’s true moral test
Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. -Milan Kundera, novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1 Apr 1929)
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André Maurois: Poorly chosen words
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. -André Maurois, author (1885-1967)
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Thomas Hobbes: Curiosity
Curiosity is the lust of the mind. -Thomas Hobbes, philosopher (5 Apr 1588-1679)
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Mark O’Connell: Biology of love
“There is the biology of falling in love, but there is also a biology of long-term attachment too – you have to lay down those Rules… Couples should celebrate their differences, give up habits and addictions and find freedom through commitment.” —Mark O’Connell, author of The Marriage Benefit: The Surprising Rewards of Staying Together.
