My Favourite Quotes

Doosron ki galtiyon se kya seekhna, make your own mistakes yaar!

~Copied from someone’s gtalk status message

Uh, no, you got the wrong number. This is 9-1…2

~Chief Wiggum, The Simpsons

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that

~Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?

~Alice, Alice in Wonderland

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
~ The Duchess, Alice in Wonderland

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable

~Sidney Harris

Any new idea, Mahound, is asked two questions.
The first is asked when it’s weak:
WHAT KIND OF AN IDEA ARE YOU?
Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;
or are you the cursed, bloody-minded ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?
- the kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, be smashed to bits;
but the hundredth time, will change the world?

What’s the second question? Gibreel asked.

Answer the first one first.

~The Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie

For you, a thousand times over.

~The Kite Runner : Khaled Hosseini

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change

~Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

We’re all mad here

~Alice in Wonderland : Lewis Caroll