Black Album Hanif Kureishi Quotes

#1. If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Fred Saberhagen

#3. I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.

Graham Elliot

#4. Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Diane Ackerman

#5. The tyranny of this dictatorship isn't primarily the fault of Big Business, nor of the demagogues who do their dirty work. It's the fault of Doremus Jessup! Of all the conscientious, respectable, lazy-minded Doremus Jessups, who have let the demogogues wriggle in, without fierce enough protest." 14

Sinclair Lewis

#6. The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

Steve Forbes

#7. Ty: I wasn't sure you would come back.
Mark: I'll always come back to you, Tiberius. I am sorry if I ever led you to believe anything else.

Cassandra Clare

#8. The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette

#9. Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#10. What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#11. Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's

Judith McNaught

#12. You must be hungry," said the satyr. "Either that, or your stomach speaks hedgehog. That was quite a statement in hedgehog.

Rick Riordan

#13. A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

Jaime Lerner

#14. The greatest Church Fathers, for instance, took it for granted that the creation narratives of Genesis could not be treated literally,

David Bentley Hart

#15. I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

Darrell Royal