Bozorg Alavi Quotes

#1. The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.

Junior Seau

#2. August is the month when wars start. It's when the water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down their shades and lock themselves in their rooms in August. Lifelong friends have fist fights. People feel like they're going to burst. Sometimes they do.

Al Aronowitz

#3. The door was open; I stepped in. A ghost town with a ghost theater, yet the former grandness still evident, the gold wallpaper peeling, the velvet seats in attendant rows, though ripped and ruined. Why did I cry? Not because it was a wreck, but because I felt the history.

Dana Spiotta

#4. With increasing skill, the ads glorify her "role" as an American housewife-knowing that her very lack of identity in that role will make her fall for whatever they are selling.

Betty Friedan

#5. There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Only a few of us believe in reality of dreams and actuality of love; but we all devote ourselves to that uncertainty and hesitation.

M.F. Moonzajer

#7. Risk is an essential part of progress.

Robert G. Allen

#8. Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.

Samuel R. Delany

#9. Within a few hours of meeting him, I realized that "love at first sight" just means feeling immediately and extremely calm with someone.

Pamela Druckerman