Quotes About Scheherazade

#1. No, her secret was too weighty and dark to reveal to anyone - she had to bear it alone. - "I had to keep breaking into his house," Scheherazade said.

Haruki Murakami

#2. My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.

Alonzo King

#3. I've always though of writing as the opposite of suicide," she said. "That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it."
"Like Scheherazade?"
"Yes," she said. "Spinning tales to forestall her execution ...

Ruth Ozeki

#4. We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

E. M. Forster

#5. Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent. Scheherazade's story is a desperate inversion of murder; it is the effort, throughout all those nights, to exclude death from the circle of existence.

Michel Foucault

#6. You'll tell me a story and I'll spare you ? You think I don't see what you're doing ? I've read Arabian Nights."
"Call me Scheherazade, baby ! Actually, she's one tricksy bitch. Who, by the way, still owes me twenty gold pieces and a pound of sesame.

Kresley Cole

#7. So he was a sort of anti-Scheherazade, Dunia told him, the exact opposite of the storyteller of The Thousand Nights and One Night: her stories saved her life, while his put his life in danger.

Salman Rushdie

#8. Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it.

Esme Wynne-Tyson

#9. The lapis lazuli worry beads, draped over his rear view mirror, swung back and forth like the hips of Scheherazade, Mohammed's favorite belly dancer, who refused, in spite of the war, to leave Baghdad.

Leslie Cockburn

#10. So Scheherazade began.

Anonymous

#11. Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.

Marina Warner

#12. Design is where science and art break even.

Robin Mathews

#13. Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about engaging with the tribe and delivering products and services with stories that spread.

Seth Godin

#14. If there is an effect in your life that you want more of, you merely need to trace it back to the causes and
repeat the causes. If there is an effect in your life that you do not
enjoy, you need to trace it back to the causes and get rid of them.

Brian Tracy

#15. Thank the gods for crunchy food. "I don't see how we are expected to be confined in this . . ." Chew. Chew. Chew. "The blanket is hardly big enough to cover my . . ." Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.

Emily R. King

#16. To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Just cast a spell, Dad, and change me into what you want me to be, okay?

J.K. Rowling

#18. Even an atheist finds God when they point at what they don't believe in.

Kim Kardashian

#19. I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#20. You saved me," he repeated. The words sounded like they'd been pulled from the depths of his soul. He stepped back and then dropped his jeans, laying his body, mind, and soul bare with me. "Baby - " "My own parents walked away from me, but you saved me," he hissed, raising a shaking hand to my face.

C.P. Smith

#21. Time has one immortal desire: to carry on.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. When the music comes, you try to see it shining between your eyes. Like threads stretched taut and the notes as colored beads threaded on. When you get very good, it's as if you can see inside the music, through it. You bring the music alive, bring it into being. As if you're the one composing.

Anna Smaill

#23. Lanie, you live 15 minutes away from your office and you get there at eight. Over two hours every day just to do your hair and makeup. Diana fuckin' Ross in her heyday probably took less time to get ready for a show. Babe, if that isn't high maintenance, I do not know what is.

Kristen Ashley

#24. She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.

Fatema Mernissi

#25. Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

Ruth Rendell

#26. Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Walt Whitman