Ahmedin Jemal Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ... — Amitav Ghosh

I swear the older I get, the more I value bad examples over good ones. It's a good thing too, because most people are egotistical, neurotic, self-absorbed peons, insistent on wearing near-sighted glasses in a far-sighted world. And it's this exact sort of myopic ignorance that has led to my groundbreaking new theory. I call it Mim's Theorem of Monkey See Monkey Don't, and what it boils down to is this: it is my belief that there are some people whose sole purpose of existence is to show the rest of how not to act. — David Arnold

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. — Bette Midler

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy ... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none. — Neal Stephenson

Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9) — Elizabeth Peters

Would you like to cross another item off this list today?"
"I should like that very much. Which do you propose?"
"I think it's time to try riding astride".
"You can't mean ... "
"Oh, but I do, indeed, mean, Empress. — Sarah MacLean

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby. — Larry Page

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. — Bruce Sterling

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate. — Daniela Hantuchova

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you. — John Green