Lootera Online Quotes & Sayings

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies of mankind; and when the universal pursuit of gain is trampling down the early growth of poetic feeling, and wearing out the verdure of the soul, I question whether it would not be of service for the reader occasionally to turn to these records of prouder times and loftier modes of thinking; and to steep himself to the very lips in old Spanish romance. — Washington Irving

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else. — Anne Roiphe

But I have to warn you that this is the word - 'politics' - that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization. — Neal Stephenson

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in. — Jock Sturges

There is nothing that anyone can get past a forty-five-year-old woman." We laugh hard, the first honest sound I make that afternoon, or in many days, each of us feeling the ravages of experience, our debt to enduring. We are not to be fucked with. We rule. Even as we age and help our children push past us, as we worry about the estimate for the roof, forget things we meant to do, regard our widening bodies, we rule. We've returned again and again to our original selves for another look; we have refined our purpose. Changes we thought we'd been resisting have anyway been wrought, and they have made us unbreakable. — Susanna Sonnenberg

Unity is the Foundation of Success — Bharath Mamidoju

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers. — Georges St-Pierre

There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home. — Ann Shulgin

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been. — Lauren DeStefano

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. — Gustave Flaubert

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. — James Madison

Once I chose just to be myself, everything fell into place. — Dana Perino

Through the forest he pursued the she-monster whose tail coiled over the dead leaves like a silver stream; and he came to a meadow where women, with the hindquarters of dragons, stood around a great fire, raised on the tips of their tails. The moon shone red as blood in a pale circle and their scarlet tongues, formed like fishing harpoons, stretched out, curling to the edge of the flame. — Gustave Flaubert

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. — Charlie Gehringer