Mihri Quotes

#1. It is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

Karen Essex

#2. I was always more of an academic than a jock.

Edwin Moses

#3. I made a resolution I would throw myself into the Danube if I didn't ask you to make love with me today.

Stephen Vizinczey

#4. Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.

Jerry Della Femina

#5. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Marianne Williamson

#6. I lost one illusion last night. I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. And it spoils one's career at critical moments.

Oscar Wilde

#7. I've lied / to you
The same way that I always do
This is / the last smile
That I'll fake for the sake of being with you

Linkin Park

#8. If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Jackie Kennedy

#9. I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Robert Fitzgerald

#10. One female who knows what to do
is better than a thousand males who don't.

Mihri Hatun

#11. I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it.
But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it?
Frame it?
Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

Marian Keyes

#12. I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.

Margaret Atwood