Sheikh Muhammad Sayings

#1. Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)

Paul Torday

#2. Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police - plastic swords versus batons. Percy wasn't sure what that was about, but he and Annabeth decided to keep walking. Sometimes mortals were even stranger than monsters.

Rick Riordan

#3. I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Renee Fleming

#4. But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. When you've nothing, at least you've all of it.

Ali Smith

#6. I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.

Kerry Greenwood

#7. If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

Alice Waters

#8. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Stephen Hawking

#9. For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

Jane Hirshfield

#11. Because of her hospital schedule, she was either not around at all, or sleeping, or around a lot.

Carol Anshaw

#12. I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

George Clooney

#13. And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life.

Morrissey