Almaas Glossary Quotes & Sayings

The scraps of the rich are the delicacies of the poor. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch. — Shaquille O'Neal

Tuning must come first. Each recital begins with a careful tightening of the pegs on the cross-bar, twisting them in their socket of red threads as each string is plucked and tested. He uses his thumb for this, softer and subtler than the plectrum, his head bent to the vibrating string and his lips slightly open, breathing quickly, as over the body of a lover. — Ann Wroe

I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor. — John Gordon Sinclair

I believe God expects us to fight for our lives... don't you? — Anne Sweazy-Kulju

Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported. — Barack Obama

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away. — John Boehner

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life. — Mike Tyson

Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us. — Joan Didion

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever. — Christopher Strachey