Hussein Nishah Quotes

#1. The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.

Don DeLillo

#2. I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

Elizabeth George

#3. A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Andy Rooney

#4. Those are not the tears of repentance! ... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

George MacDonald

#5. I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.

Billy Connolly

#6. When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

Gerd De Ley

#7. Going slow didn't come naturally to him, but Charlotte was worth it.

Nalini Singh

#8. Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Brooks Atkinson

#9. All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

John Cale

#10. Mr. Chairman, when the Fed was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here ... and that this country was to supply the financial power to an international superstate.

Louis Thomas McFadden

#11. Sorry, I said. But I've been recently diagnosed as fashion intolerant. I can't wear anything good, in case I develop style.

Simon R. Green

#12. We can not improve humanity if everyone is conforming to society's standards. Set your own standard, and find out for yourself.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#13. [Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

Orson Scott Card

#14. I should wonder what courage - which is the virtue they most value - has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

Veronica Roth