Annapoorna Gowrishankar Quotes & Sayings

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with — Vladimir Nabokov

I was once dancing with a woman who told me she had a yeast infection so I told her to bake me some bread. — George Carlin

Ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you — Jack Kerouac

My sense, although I don't remember discussing it with anyone, was that with the fall of France to the Nazis in June 1940, European civilization had collapsed. I also recalled that although both George Herbert Mead and John Dewey had been born in New England, they developed their distinctively American philosophy of pragmatism in Chicago. So thinking of my own New England roots, I decided to go to Chicago, which, seen through Carl Sandburg's eyes, was the opposite of European decadence: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler, Stormy, husky, brawling. City of the Big Shoulders.7 — Grace Lee Boggs

It was easier for me to hate everyone in town than hate myself for being afraid I'd be just like them. — John Corey Whaley

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants. — Louie Schwartzberg

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery. — Immortal Technique

Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience. — Oswald Chambers

If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity — Aesop