Midaq Alley Important Quotes

#1. Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.

Tiger Woods

#2. I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.

Tyson Fury

#3. When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Bryant H. McGill

#5. To Dan, the boy looked like

Rodney Riesel

#6. If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Barry McGuigan

#7. You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

Max Frisch

#8. Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Karl Marx

#9. The mind is like an iceberg full of penguins, but when another penguin jumps up, one on the other side falls off. So it is with the mind, if one wants to force bad things out one must keep the good penguins on and force the bad ones out.

Unknown

#10. I tried making an album six years ago. It was just horrific. Trust me, it's smashed into smithereens. I paid big money to silence that one.

Hugh Jackman

#11. Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like reservoirs of images. We take in what is around us.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#12. Every death is like the burning of a library.

Alex Haley

#13. There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.

Paul Theroux

#14. Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will talk of socialism or anarchy, of the transformation of all humanity on a new pattern, which all comes to the same thing, they're the same questions turned inside out.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. No . . . please don't leave me. I'll be your whore. I'll be whatever you want, please." I

Kitty Thomas