Bilal Tanweer Quotes

#1. True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication

Bilal Tanweer

#2. Ever seen a bullet-smashed windscreen?
The hole at the center becomes an eye. You see less through it but you gain focus, sharpness. That's how it is -- our wounds become our eyes. Seeing outside becomes seeing inside.
Listen.

Bilal Tanweer

#3. But I am not sure what this self is. For the moment I seem to be busy tearing down what I was.

Anais Nin

#4. Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

Julia Caroline Dorr

#5. We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.

Bilal Tanweer

#6. for the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.

Bilal Tanweer

#7. Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.

Bilal Tanweer

#8. Even when it gets messy, get out as cleanly as possible!

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#9. You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

Miles Davis

#10. Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things; digging into the fractures of your breath warm and greedy.

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#11. Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

Bilal Tanweer

#12. Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now not to plant the karmic seeds that would cause us to be reborn as an animal in one of those hell realms.

Sharon Gannon

#13. The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy.

Cheryl James

#14. I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

Viswanathan Anand

#15. I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Arthur Miller

#16. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Cassandra Clare

#17. The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

Mary Bono

#18. Explain to me again," he begged," why we are here."

She had told him once before; it had been like listening to a vivid, improbable dream.

Patricia A. McKillip

#19. I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

Kara Swisher

#20. What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.

Bilal Tanweer

#21. The sea, you see, feels good for only a few days, but then it starts suffocating you. You first escape to the sea to escape yourself, but after a while that's all you find there. City is better that way. There are too many lanes and alleys. You never run into yourself there.

Bilal Tanweer

#22. My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions.

Bilal Tanweer

#23. Instead of deciding on a class and then figuring out its responsibilities, you are now deciding on a message and figuring out where to send it. This transition from class-based design to message-based design is a turning point in your design career.

Sandi Metz

#24. It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible.

Marianne Wiggins

#25. a city is all about how you look at it

Bilal Tanweer

#26. people who ran away are friends!

Bilal Tanweer

#27. Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

Sara Sheridan

#28. Observing is not the same as experiencing.' Li Wei gestures angrily at my stump. 'You sit there and judge others from a safe distance every day. You assume because you watch us, you understand us. But you don't.

Richelle Mead

#29. That was the strange problem with writing, you had discovered. Meaning never matched the words and words always evaded the thought.

Bilal Tanweer