Rassouli Quotes

#1. The Bill of Rights wasn't enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.

Kenneth Eade

#2. I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

Scott Wolf

#3. No, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#4. I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

Rufus Wainwright

#5. My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

Winston Churchill

#6. We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.

Maurice De Saxe

#7. Creation is the product of synchronizing our energy with the universe. Once we experience the whole and recognize it, we become aware that we are nothing but the Divine Creative Force.

Freydoon Rassouli

#8. Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

Marcel Proust

#9. All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?

Cassandra Clare

#10. Think about it. If I say to you, "Oh! I wrote a 500-page book on that!" Don't your eyebrows go up?

Margaret Aranda

#11. Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

David Mitchell

#12. Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.

Dana Glossbrenner

#13. Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

Damon Galgut

#14. Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ...

Damien Hirst