Kornah Quotes

#1. Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.

Isabella Bird

#2. Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Marco Tempest

#3. Lord bless our week. The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go beyond what we think.

Paulo Coelho

#4. It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

Roselee Goldberg

#5. Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.

Richard Powers

#6. Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

Paul Ryan

#7. When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

Edward Gibbon

#8. The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.

Pauly Shore

#9. I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. It's not that you expect anything in particular from this particular book. You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything.

Italo Calvino

#11. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible ... everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. Colossians 1:16 (MSG)

Rick Warren

#12. You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Anthony Bourdain

#13. Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.
I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black.

Robert Graves

#15. Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men always are.

Jamaica Kincaid