Ashraf Ismail Quotes & Sayings

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them. — Chief Seattle

I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom. — Colson Whitehead

There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony, it is not marvelous manifestations, it is not knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true, ... it is not actually knowing that the Savior is the Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was His prophet, that will save you and me, but it is the keeping of the commandments of God, the living the life of a Latter-day Saint.
[Heber J. Grant, Improvement Era, November 1936, p. 659] Quoted in "Waiting Upon the Lord" By Henry B. Eyring, BYU Speeches, 30 Sept 1990 — Heber J. Grant

So basically you're sticking around to watch us all fuck up ?"
"Yes. It's one of life's few guaranteed constants. — Iain M. Banks

How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is 't you do? — William Shakespeare

So many individuals in different places, all with the same good idea. All, in their own ways, attempting to use light on a wall to open a window into another world. And how odd is it that the two guys who made the first viable motion picture happened to have a surname that means "light"? Still just coincidence? — Gemma Files

I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day. — Janeane Garofalo

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end — Douglas Coupland

Love is the strongest medicine. — Neem Karoli Baba

I sleep in the pajamas almost every single night, if not, the nightgowns. — Jill Stuart

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. — H.L. Mencken

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. — Rick Moody

I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment. — Stephen Curry

Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study. — Primo Levi