May Ziadah Quotes

#1. The silence could have swallowed a star.

Yoon Ha Lee

#2. The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

Leslie Ford

#3. I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

Freida Pinto

#4. Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.

Thomas Aquinas

#5. A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Helen Keller

#6. With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner, serving dark beer and kielbasa to keep up one's strength while browsing, and all around will be the kind of angels usually found in Victoria's Secret catalogs.

Michael Dirda

#7. The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

Sam Kean

#8. wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp
and hold every child,
cover their ears
so they wouldn't have to hear the sound of bombing
for the rest of their life the way I do..

Rafeef Ziadah

#9. If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Paul Newman

#10. What a foreign concept it is to die, to cough up what you are as if it is no more than mucus pooled at the back of your throat, and perish.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#11. I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.

Frederick W. Smith

#12. Would you look at you two? What's the special occa-ouch!

Virginia Smith

#13. Oh my God, I . . . I almost got run over by a moped," I said, turning my bewildered stare back on Ren. "That would've been so embarrassing to be taken out by one of them

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Chuck Close

#15. She is a pebble skipping
over the surface of a lake.
As I once was.
Not a deep sinking stone that leaves widening ripples behind
after it's disappeared.
As I hope to be.

Padma Venkatraman

#16. Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

C.S. Lewis