Suheir Barakat Quotes

#1. Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

Mac Barnett

#3. English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

John Cleese

#4. I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

William Nicholson

#5. I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

Julian Casablancas

#6. I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.

George W. Bush

#7. Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Jonathan Swift

#8. There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

Rhianna Pratchett

#9. Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

Emile M. Cioran