Shishir Mehrotra Quotes & Sayings

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. — Ernest Hemingway,

To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind. — Ernest Klein

You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don't think there's a right or a wrong; I think there's an "it works" or "it doesn't work" for the whole. And that's why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions. — Susan Sarandon

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization. — Marc Lamont Hill

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew. — Franjo Tudjman

All my girlhood I always planned to do something big ... something constructive. It's queer what ambitious dreams a girl has when she is young. I thought I would sing before big audiences or paint lovely pictures or write a splendid book. I always had that feeling in me of wanting to do something worth while. And just think, Laura ... now I am eighty and I have not painted nor written nor sung."
"But you've done lots of things, Grandma. You've baked bread ... and pieced quilts ... and taken care of your children."
Old Abbie Deal patted the young girl's hand. "Well ... well ... out of the mouths of babes. That's just it, Laura, I've only baked bread and pieced quilts and taken care of children. But some women have to, don't they? ... But I've dreamed dreams, Laura. All the time I was cooking and patching and washing, I dreamed dreams. And I think I dreamed them into the children ... and the children are carrying them out ... doing all the things I wanted to and couldn't. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know. — Jaggi Vasudev

What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros? — Eugene Ionesco

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back. — Charles M. Schulz

When the matriarch is gone, so is the herd's collective memory. — Jodi Picoult

True love doesn't exist, for, love is always true. If it is not true, then it is not love at all. — Ashmita Acharya

She laughed and said how silly we were to not accept life for what it was, difficult. — Pepper Phillips