Shahrnush Parsipur Quotes

#1. My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

Leeza Gibbons

#2. I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Cynthia Nixon

#3. As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

Haruki Murakami

#4. You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

Demetri Martin

#5. I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written most of the novels about Iranian women. In this way, maybe I have a good place in Iranian literature.

Shahrnush Parsipur

#6. Life is very fragile and you never know when it is over. Only one instance and then it might be too late to accept Gods offer for forgiveness.

Chuck Norris

#7. I write for these women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence will save us, but it won't.

Audre Lorde

#8. All day long I can look forward to a popsicle.

Zadie Smith

#9. In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

Countee Cullen

#10. On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.

Shahrnush Parsipur

#11. Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

William Mountford

#12. I wanted to paint a picture,
in indelible print, across
the canvass of my heart.

Suman Pokhrel

#13. Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.

Julian Barnes

#14. By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In this sense, I'm really grateful for that because I was conscious that I had such homicidal traits, to be honest.

Yoshiyuki Tomino

#15. Duck wasn't sure if it was optimism or fantasy, but hope had been such uncharted waters for him recently that he was having difficulty navigating them.

Elmer Seward