Shahabuddin Blogspot Quotes

#1. In school, it got so that Elijah learned to talk his way out of anything, gave great long speeches so that his words snaked themselves like vines around the nuns until they could no longer move, [ ... ].

Joseph Boyden

#2. Are you lovers?"
"Excuse me?"
"Do you mind my asking you?"
"Yes."
"It's off the record."
"Then why do you need to know?"
Daniel Moore smiled. A large, happy smile.
"Because I would like to ask you to dinner.

Francesca Marciano

#3. She was even grateful at first for this backdoor entry into the New York art scene, although rather quickly she came to think of it as entering a peacock through its rectum.

Tom Robbins

#4. If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it ... seemed a defeat.

Martha Gellhorn

#5. A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#6. If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.

Lauren Myracle

#7. Hope is not guaranteed, keep it at your own risk.

Kelvin Trambadiya

#8. This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

M. E. W. Sherwood

#9. I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

T.I.

#10. To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

Immanuel Kant

#11. One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

Susan Sontag

#12. Etruscans sometimes wrote boustrophedon style, in which the direction of writing alternates with each line - right-to-left, then left-to-right. Brilliant! The eye doesn't waste time trekking back to the left side of the page after every line.

A. J. Jacobs

#13. I'm sitting with my friends getting drunk again on wine, and I think about you

Kate Nash

#14. Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

George Saunders

#15. Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

Howard W. Hunter