Samad Said Quotes

#1. Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
To make my end too sudden.

William Shakespeare

#2. Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Anne Sullivan

#3. But the Alim laughed at this. 'And we know who they are. Allah have pity on the Anglicans! Samad, when the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intellect go away,' said the Alim, shaking his head. 'And one third of his religion.

Zadie Smith

#4. Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her."
"Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

Zadie Smith

#5. I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

David Guetta

#6. What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

Erica Jong

#7. I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

Martin Luther

#8. Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

Malachy McCourt