Jamil Ahmad Quotes

#1. Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

Jeanne DuPrau

#2. I was a schizophrenic, not a damn invalid.

Francesca Zappia

#3. As long as it still hurts, it isn't love yet.

Silvia Hartmann

#4. ...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.

Jamil Ahmad

#5. Hope does not die like an animal--quick and sudden. It is more like a plant, which slowly withers away.

Jamil Ahmad

#6. I won't be satisfied with anything less than everything,

Julia Quinn

#7. What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

Joe Klein

#8. We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.

Leonard Mlodinow

#9. It's terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches off into a new world.

Blake Crouch

#10. Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

#11. You know what I like about disposable razors? They're disposable.

Kyan Douglas

#12. I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

Sarah Hay

#13. For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

John Lennon

#14. I'll chase the demons away, Maus.

Tionne Rogers

#15. Day by day his sister grew
Paler with the wound
She could not see or touch or feel, as I dressed it
Each day with her blue Breton jacket.
- from Life After Death

Ted Hughes

#16. It's not the fault of ghosts that we are so frightened of them.

John Lanchester

#17. I can't ask for a better you. You, however, deserve a better me.

Adhitya Mulya