In Arabian Nights Quotes

#1. The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.

Thomas Paine

#2. I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

Katie Price

#3. A government shutdown is inexcusable.

Darlene Senger

#4. You'll tell me a story and I'll spare you ? You think I don't see what you're doing ? I've read Arabian Nights."
"Call me Scheherazade, baby ! Actually, she's one tricksy bitch. Who, by the way, still owes me twenty gold pieces and a pound of sesame.

Kresley Cole

#5. Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Nicolas Malebranche

#6. It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights," he said. "Only an Oriental could have planned it. It does not belong to London fogs.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#7. You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found ...

Rebecca Solnit

#8. You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.

Mac Miller

#9. Cruz stroked her arms, following them up to her shoulders. "So obedient. Did you know she'd be like this?" "I knew she'd be perfect." Ace cupped her chin and pressed his thumb to her lips. "How much of my cock can you take without choking, angel?" Another prickle of heat washed over

Kit Rocha

#10. I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

Haruki Murakami

#11. In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and led him, step by step, through adventures so wonderful that words can scarce describe them.

Arabian Nights

#12. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairty tale from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Anatole France

#14. Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

Ken Kesey

#15. Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.

Marina Warner

#16. Everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Brenda Ueland

#17. Such misplaced faith in a boy with a murderous past and a girl with treacherous intent.

Renee Ahdieh

#18. Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

Salman Rushdie

#19. Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.

Marina Warner

#20. To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

William Osler

#21. If we never shift our perspective from the standpoint of life, no matter how much we want to think on death, it will only be an extension of our thinking on life

Shinmon Aoki

#22. Who on earth could feel comfortable enough to sleep in a room with no books? Edward

Cynthia Hand

#23. Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

Rajneesh

#24. Often the trouble with magical things. They're never quite what you'd expect.

Lloyd Alexander