Baghdady New York Quotes & Sayings

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying. — Jennifer Stone

Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them. — Bailey Richert

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules. — Bernard Pivot

Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle. — Marcus Aurelius

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge. — Thomas M. Disch

I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge. — Jurnee Smollett

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it. — Akio Morita

You people get so closed up inside those little brains. Their structure changes in response to thought, you know, like your muscles respond to use. The used parts bulk up. Bad training develops uneven strength; it takes time and painful work to balance unbalanced muscles. — Max Gladstone

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse. — P. J. O'Rourke