Charles Doughty Quotes

#1. The sports of children satisfy the child.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.

Tony Hawk

#3. The Doktor took a fly swatter and hit it hard. 'Bang!' it went. But it didn't go splat! The roach just shook its heads, hissed at him, and staggered off with two minor headaches.

Christina Engela

#4. There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, "Who is here the sheykh?" he would answer him "I am he.

Charles M. Doughty

#5. Can a man change the stars?"
"Yes William. If he believes enough, a man can do anything!

A Knights Tale

#6. Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

Angela Braly

#7. If I were to look in you ferigerator ... refridgefreetorator ... fridge ... what would I find?

Louis Tomlinson

#8. There's a beast in all of us, you know,' Jasper said.
'No,' Tessa said.
'Yes, a monster right inside of us all,' Jasper said.
They wondered what theirs looked like. They faced each other and blinked while making faces to try to capture the phantom.

Cecil Castellucci

#9. I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

Elia Kazan

#10. The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind ... Only when I am totally immersed ... absorbed in work ... does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush.

Catherine Stock

#11. In his introduction to Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta, T. E. Lawrence attempted to describe the character of the desert Arabs that both he and Doughty had admired. "They are the least morbid of peoples," Lawrence wrote, "who take the gift of life unquestioningly, as an axiom.

David Berlinski

#12. Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

V.S. Naipaul