Shapour Bakhtiar Quotes

#1. More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

Casey Stengel

#3. We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Bootsy Collins

#4. [He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.

Edward P. Jones

#5. I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

Paul Theroux

#6. In the old days ... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

David Attenborough

#7. God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God's power is perfect in our weakness,

Francine Rivers

#8. I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. I like the way you fight."
Was that a compliment?
"It's very efficient. Who taught you?"
"Your grandmother."...
"That seems unlikely. My grandmother preferred sewing to fighting.

Jodi Meadows

#10. It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk about the inside from the inside, I do not want to leave it
I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread

Helene Cixous

#11. Dare to try, knowing that you will make mistakes. You will fall short again and again, because there is no effort without error. In the end, you will either know the triumph of high achievement, or if you fail, you will fail while daring greatly.

Tessa Afshar

#12. We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

Nolan Bushnell

#13. I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

J.K. Rowling

#14. You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.

Nina Garcia