Maissa Salama Quotes

#1. Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.

Patrick Symmes

#2. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against.

Audrey Niffenegger

#3. [E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

L. Neil Smith

#4. The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt

#5. You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

Rajneesh

#6. You had to be reasonably wealthy and privileged to choose not to own stuff. He

John Connolly

#7. Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

Clifford Geertz

#8. The dark covers me and I cannot run now.

Amy Winehouse

#9. It is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences ... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

Milan Kundera

#10. I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.

Curt Gowdy

#11. Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#12. Charlie and Daniel think money and happiness are not related. They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to a body. To a mind.

Nicola Yoon