Teheran Quotes

#1. Clearly, the Iranians are well aware that Teheran would be turned into a field of glass and sand if they ever stepped toward open war with Israel or Saudi Arabia.

Mike Barnicle

#2. Stalin's Russia treated Jews as equals - not as superiors like the US. If Jewish nationalism were treated in England and the US as it was in Moscow in the days of Stalin, the citizens of Baghdad and Teheran, Basra and Ramallah would be able to sleep peacefully in their own homes.

Israel Shamir

#3. We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

Joseph Stiglitz

#4. I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

Bryan Greenberg

#5. The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

Rob Montgomery

#6. Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.

Roger Ebert

#7. Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.

Rob Riggle

#9. Supporters of the [environmental] movement often appear to worship not the God of heaven, but the god of nature. This is a dangerous form of idolatry. Anytime animal life becomes more sacred in our view than human life, we have lost sight of our proper priorities.

Billy Graham

#10. Most magicians are afraid of magic.

Max Maven

#11. A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

Thomas Merton

#12. Write about winter in the summer.

Annie Dillard

#13. I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

Seal

#14. If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

John Dewey

#15. People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#16. I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.

Cameron Diaz

#17. I'm really bad at describing my own life.

Helmut Lang