Altair Ibn La Ahad Arabic Quotes

#1. Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

Boris Pasternak

#2. A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Vernon Lee

#3. Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Aldous Huxley

#4. Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. We are not interested in design statements. We do everything we can to simplify design.

Leander Kahney

#6. Every time somebody makes an Indian movie ... Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt ... the fashion industry cashes in.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#7. When we heard those shots and he saw Ploeg lying in front of the house, what he said was, 'My God, the lizards!'
With wide-eyed disbelief Anton looked out over her head.

Harry Mulisch

#8. As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

Murray Gell-Mann

#9. Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Joseph Joubert

#10. I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.

Nick Lowe

#11. Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

George Herbert

#12. Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Susanna Moore

#13. When you get a bad review, you hate the writer. It's very painful; whoever says the opposite lies. It's humiliating. Sometimes it comes from an honest place, but most times, it comes from a desire to trash someone.

Thomas Vinterberg

#14. The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

Suzanne Finnamore

#15. In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.

Jay L. Garfield