Ghaanna Quotes & Sayings

The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me. — Pete Rose

You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore. — Christoph Waltz

Or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man. — Robertson Davies

There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause, because people never went to the fountain-head; they were content only to give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers, and wanted others to do the same. — Swami Vivekananda

The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible. — Gustave Le Bon

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them. — Jerzy Kosinski

Samantha, you interest me. I'd like to take you out. Why are you fighting me? — Elizabeth Brown

No matter how great an achievement you had a year ago, no matter how momentous and critically acclaimed it was, it is still in the past and has no real bearing on the present moment. — Chris Matakas

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight. — Lorrie Moore

I know," she said. "She could. She was really irritating like that." "Very," he agreed. There was a thoughtful sadness about him- one that seemed very familiar. "I guess she did know what she was doing a little," she said. "I got an uncle out of it, at least." Richard stopped pushing his folder and looked up. "Yeah." He smiled. "It's nice to have a niece, too. — Maureen Johnson

There are times when I am concerned about Toph's expression when I'm really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything - an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion - but I know well enough that it is awe. — Dave Eggers

One had said, 'You say you come from Ghaanna? Then we have a lot in common!' Sissie didn't know what to do with the statement, uncertain of whether it was a threat or a promise.
'We had chiefs like you,' the Scot went on, 'who fought one another and all, while the Invader marched in.' Sissie thanked her, but also felt strongly that their kinship had better end right there. — Ama Ata Aidoo