Alif Serial Quotes

#1. I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it?

Tom Scharpling

#2. Every day we live and every meal we eat we influence the great microbial organ inside us - for better or for worse.

Giulia Enders

#3. I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

Margaret Atwood

#4. There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

David Hockney

#5. Many people have a gift for language that flows when they are talking and dries up when they are confronted with the blank page,

Francine Prose

#6. The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

Goldwin Smith

#7. The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Felix O. Hartmann

#8. The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!

Amitav Ghosh

#9. The room hovered around me with great gentleness, as if the chairs and the tables and the walls were withholding their weight out of sympathy for my sudden frailty.

Sylvia Plath

#10. God loves you, that He plans for your good, not your hurt. It's true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn't because God likes to see us suffer. He wants to see us grow. He wants us to love Him, to trust Him.

Janette Oke

#11. Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#12. A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

Steve Coleman

#13. They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I

Joe Abercrombie