Turbaned Quotes

#1. These Sultans of the fastnesses were turbaned with tumbled volumes of cloud, which shredded away from time to time and drifted off fringed and torn, trailing their continents of shadow after them;

Mark Twain

#2. Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.

Nadifa Mohamed

#3. Where is your Christian god now?" the turbaned assassin shouts. Lucine thinks it is a good question. Not one person answers him. Not Mairig and not the missionary. Perhaps they sense what Lucine already knows, that if God is indeed anywhere, he is not here.

Aline Ohanesian

#4. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.

Fiona Helmsley

#5. Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

A.R. Ammons

#6. A wielder of words is a wielder of power.

Dyrk Ashton

#7. Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Philip Yancey

#8. People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

Mark Zuckerberg

#9. By investing in diverse asset types from SD video to HD video to 4K video, we can satisfy the video needs of a wide array of users.

Jon Oringer

#10. It doesn't take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and simply, what love is and how love likes to behave.

Robert Walser

#11. There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

Yvette Clarke

#12. It's a painful thing to look inside yourself and see the whys and the hows of your clockwork.

Tarryn Fisher

#13. I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

Lydia Lunch

#14. Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion.
Of forgiveness.
Of coming home.

Lori Wilde

#15. You are someone else's proof that God exists."

-from The Secret of Mago Castle, available October 2014

Rebecca Tinkle

#16. A proposal is a document that says you understand your client's needs. It says you know how to help and that you can, and it sets the expectation for a better future.

Nathan Powell

#17. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Angelina Jolie