Amirhossein Mirhosseini Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint-old man propaganda. — James Thurber

What do the stars believe in, Zainab? Where do the dead horses go, what do the birds worship, and what do the rivers live for? — Rawi Hage

O night in which the stars feign light, O night that alone is the size of the Universe, make me, body and soul, part of your body, so that - being mere darkness - I'll lose myself and become night as well, without any dreams as stars within me, nor a hoped-for sun shining with the future. — Fernando Pessoa

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old. — Debasish Mridha

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me. — Rodney Dangerfield

Washington not only fit the bill physically, he was also almost perfect psychologically, so comfortable with his superiority that he felt no need to explain himself. (As a young man during the French and Indian war he had been more outspoken, but he learned from experience to allow his sheer presence to speak for itself.) While less confident men blathered on, he remained silent, thereby making himself a vessel into which admirers for their fondest convictions, becoming a kind of receptacle for diverse aspirations that magically came together in one man. — Joseph J. Ellis

Science is not wisdom. — Fulton J. Sheen

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model"
or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel
"contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude. — Robert Anton Wilson

My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us. — A.R. Rahman