Farish Quotes

#1. Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

Uma Krishnaswami

#2. Going to open a quaint little bookshop and have a niche section called "Men's Interests" where we shelve the Western Cannon.

Alana Massey

#3. The story rolls along like drumbeats from house to house.

Terry Farish

#4. Numerous examples have convinced me that God ultimately saves him whose motive is pure.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

Edith Wharton

#6. I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.

Holly Black

#7. Be an all-out, not a hold out.

Norman Vincent Peale

#8. Sometimes when we spend too much time staring into the darkness, we forget there is light.

Lincoln Farish

#9. There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

Beck

#10. Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.

Omar Khayyam

#11. Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Nick Park

#12. Repeat after me... life... it's only a movie.

Dan Farish

#13. One's self-image not only encompasses the person you are but also the person you wanted to be, could be or once had been.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#14. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Steven Wright

#15. I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Ariana Grande

#16. To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

Ariel Garten

#17. As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn't that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too.

Farish A. Noor

#19. Confident is a spirit of faith

Lailah Gifty Akita