Afsaneh Najmabadi Quotes & Sayings

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. — Franz Schubert

Despite the heart numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring. — Debasish Mridha

If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality. — Neville Goddard

You got me out of this place and here's your reward; you're everything we jointly abominate. The essence of what we're committed to destroy. — Philip K. Dick

Think before you speak. Read before you think. — Fran Lebowitz

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home. — Rickey Henderson

Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong. — Terry Goodkind

I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning how to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York. — Meg Rosoff

When I see an old movie, like from the '40s or '50s or '60s, the people look so calm. They don't have smartphones, they're not looking at computer screens, they're taking their time. They'll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we'll find our way back to that garden of Eden. — Rudy Rucker

Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands ... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know ... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ... uh ... dosey-do. — Scott Adams

Faith in God gives boundless hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration. — Alexis De Tocqueville

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. — Manfred Eigen

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one. — Dick Cavett