Ghantasala Old Quotes & Sayings

Silence in the shell of a city, no baby crying, no car honking, no ambulance shrieking, no lovers moaning, no drunks throwing up in the alley, no lights, nothing but wind and rain and snow in its season and rust and a rattling of open doors and carcass smell. It was a possibility like a brain tumor or a scorpion bite. — Anne Roiphe

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won. — Jane Austen

But since a person's deepest fantasies were formed by their more or less screwed up childhoods, it made sense that anything based on them would end up in betrayal. — Shannon McKenna

Reputations are built one successfully fulfilled promise at a time. — Josh Weltman

You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.' — Janeane Garofalo

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races. — Charles Edward Merriam

An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there. — Maurice Sendak

Just outside Tehran we passed a sign that said, 'Servitude is never accepted in an ideology that believes in Martyrdom'. Below was a picture of a white dove copping a bullet in the heart. — Peter Moore

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney

Around 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to continue my studies. I wanted to go to university, but my father was poor, my uncle even. So, I did it. And for three to four years, I went to university. For three times, I applied to biomedical science, to be a doctor. I didn't succeed. — Corneille Ewango

A Kind Act can sometimes be as Powerful as A Sword — Rick Riordan

The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard. — Joe Dunthorne

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films. — Daniel Radcliffe

Everyone has that moment where they just rebel. — M.I.A.

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs. — Eduardo Galeano