Bamiyan Buddha Quotes & Sayings

The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. — Brenda Ueland

But there were some who went with her willingly, for there are other women who dream of lying with wolves. — John Connolly

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. — Elizabeth Warren

We shall not lie on our backs at the Red Castle and watch the vultures wheeling over the valley where they killed the grandson of Genghiz. We will not read Babur's memoirs in his garden at Istalif and see the blind man smelling his way around the rose bushes. Or sit in the Peace of Islam with the beggars of Gazar Gagh. We will not stand on the Buddha's head at Bamiyan, upright in his niche like a whale in a dry-dock. We will not sleep in the nomad tent, or scale the Minaret of Jam. And we shall lose the tastes - the hot, coarse, bitter bread; the green tea flavoured with cardamoms; the grapes we cooled in the snow-melt; and the nuts and dried mulberries we munched for altitude sickness. Nor shall we get back the smell of the beanfields, the sweet, resinous smell of deodar wood burning, or the whiff of a snow leopard at 14,000 feet. — Bruce Chatwin

It was shaping up to be one of a handful of days in my life that filled me with the kind of anticipation and excitement that makes your anus tingle ever so slightly. — Chad Kultgen

People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot. — Jose Antonio Vargas

I hope for your sake you've got something inside that big body of yours! — Dante Alighieri

I am telling you, the key to looking gorgeous is to never sit up straight. It implies you have not eaten enough to have the strength to sit like a regular person, which historically is sexy to everyone. — Mindy Kaling

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies. — Bill Gates

A peregrine falcon," a passenger said, "lives at 2180 Yonge Street in Toronto, on the corner of Yonge and Eglinton. It sits high on the Canadian Tire building, hunts from there, brings prey, and in full view of everyone in the offices, tears it to pieces. Blood everywhere. — Kathleen Winter

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees. — Janet M. Tavakoli

I'm not necessarily a horror fan. I just never really watched them that much. — Jane Levy

You can't love someone if you don't really know them. And if you can't love them at their darkest moments ... you just can't love them, period — Abria Mattina