Abidine Quotes

#1. The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

Graydon Carter

#2. Everything's all fun and games until someone gets an ax in the chest.

Lynsay Sands

#3. As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can't stand there breathing over their shoulders.

Madeline Miller

#4. If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.

Phil Pringle

#5. The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

Saint Patrick

#7. I just remember there was one rule: If you've got faults, we expect you to be working on it. And we are here for you. People would welcome each other then. We don't do that anymore. We don't care.

Linda Perhacs

#8. In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

Yoko Ono

#9. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Diana Wynne Jones

#10. Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.

Sherry Turkle

#11. He wasn't so elderly after all, I saw: probably just a few years older than I. And yet I was never able (and am still not) to think of myself as old. I talked as if I knew I was; I bemoaned my age. But it was only for comedy, or to make other people feel young.

Hanya Yanagihara

#12. I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

Salman Khan

#13. If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.

Johnny Marr