Tayeb Salih Quotes

#1. By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.

Tayeb Salih

#2. In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

Ted Hughes

#3. I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

Bill Maher

#4. Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Victor Hugo

#5. I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

Tayeb Salih

#6. Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

Tayeb Salih

#7. I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

Pat Murphy

#8. What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

Rupert Evans

#9. I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

Dana Spiotta

#10. The day here is a something without value, a mere torment suffered by living creatures as they await the night. Night is deliverance.

Tayeb Salih

#11. An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

Anna Kendrick

#12. The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.

Robert Cheeke

#13. Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

Heather Sellers

#14. There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision.

Frederick Lenz

#15. I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

Al Franken

#16. I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

Tayeb Salih

#17. I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

Tayeb Salih

#18. Might as well ask the once-popular Magic 8-Ball something. It got "Outlook not so good" right. I don't know if anyone ever asked it about Internet Explorer.

Ryan North

#19. I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

Mario Cuomo

#20. We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.

Tayeb Salih

#21. Wad Rayyes, you're a man who talks. rubbish. Your whole brain's in the head of your penis and the head of your penis is as small as your brain.

Tayeb Salih

#22. You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.

Tayeb Salih