Shazia Mirza Quotes

#1. One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#2. My favorite forgotten President in American history is James Buchanan, who in defending really robust and sharp-elbowed debates said, "I like the noise of democracy. I like the sound of people in the streets making noise."

Jeff Sharlet

#3. His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans
and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

Meat Loaf

#5. I want to do something challenging and I want to take risks, but above all, I want people to be entertained ... Because the only way of talking about some issues sometimes is through humor.

Shazia Mirza

#6. My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

Shazia Mirza

#7. Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Blaise Pascal

#8. I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Zebulon Pike

#9. I'm a Muslim and I'm really looking forward to my wedding day. I can't wait to meet my husband.

Shazia Mirza

#10. I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Beverly Cleary

#11. They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Adam Garcia