Avivah Dahbany Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me! — George Rickey

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic. — Garth Nix

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries. — Sophocles

I was right --skirts are inventions meant to make running harder. — Sara Raasch

I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history. — Colman Domingo

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day. — Lee Daniels

There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place. — Kenneth Chenault

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania. — Davy Jones

In fact, it is known from tales brought back by missionaries that the Japanese version of The Sinner's Guide was one of the bullwarks that sustained the faith of the Japanese Catholics during two centuries of terrible persecution, when both in Europe and Japan, Japanese Christianity was believed dead. In 1865, when missionaries were again allowed into Japan, missionary Father Bernard Petitjean was astonished to find in the hills around Nagasaki thousands of Japanese Catholics who had kept the Faith, hidden but vital, without priests, for over 200 years! Immense was the joy of these faithful ones at once again having a Catholic priest among them. The Sinner's Guide had played a providential role in sustaining the Faith in their souls during that trying time. — Louis Of Granada

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win ... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within. — Martin Luther King Jr.

People always remember the second half. — Graham Taylor

What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make? — Ted Sarandos

Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl' ... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get. — Sophie Tucker

I'm not averse to earning someone; in fact I'd love to earn some money. But also my choices of movies don't tend to make money but I get to make interesting films. But it doesn't mean I don't want to earn shitloads of cash. — Daniel Craig

How clever of them, I thought. They kept the feeling all secret; they wouldn't even let you write it down. — Sylvia Plath