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Quotes by Pawan Mishra

Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act.

Damn, the good words are all asterisked!”“The men only understand the asterisks. My worry is if they understand the rest!

If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.

The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human!

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?

A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.

A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.

Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting.

Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.

People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.

The most ironic thing in the world is having no say when your name is determined for the first time (which is also for the last time for most), because newborns are not necessarily known for speaking their minds.

Across the board at the office there was a belief, an unproved theorem, about Coinman’s blind faith in Ratiram; that if one thought Coinman could willingly sip a cup of Botulinum if Ratiram wished so, it still underestimated the reverence that dwelt in Coinman’s heart for Ratiram.

Think about death being inevitable, and unpredictable, exempt from the law of averages. Everyone has a turn, and no one knows when.

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.

I feel like oversized trousers on sale, not even made of good material, that no one wants to buy. They just hang in there hoping that someone someday will compromise for its low cost.

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.