Tawfik Hakim Quotes

#1. I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she'd just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.

J. Michael Straczynski

#3. The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

Sophocles

#4. I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#5. I am a solo flier looking out over the land of Boyfriends and Girlfriends. I am three notes in the middle of a song.

David Levithan

#6. It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

Quentin Bryce

#7. One writes not by will but by surrender.

Erica Jong

#8. The Russian economy was strong, though only the wealthy seemed to enjoy the benefits. Throughout 1913 the stock market surged to record levels,

Paul Ham

#9. The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. I regret to announce that - though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!

J.R.R. Tolkien