Basit Ali Quotes & Sayings

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out. — Charles Baxter

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to. — Natasha Bedingfield

Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I
don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you. - Vane — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else. — William Feather

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). — Lewis Carroll

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass. — David Low

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is. — John Hurt

A review of trials of acupuncture for back pain showed that the studies that were properly blinded showed a tiny benefit for acupuncture, which was not "statistically significant" (we'll come back to what that means later). Meanwhile, the trials that were not blinded - the ones in which the patients knew whether they were in the treatment group or not - showed a massive, statistically significant benefit for acupuncture. — Ben Goldacre

I'm very sane about how crazy I am. — Carrie Fisher

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it
teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday. — Mercedes Lackey

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them. — Mike Love

When Salter was fifty-five, his twenty-five-year-old daughter, Allan, died in an electrical accident. She was in the shower in a cabin next door to his in Aspen. He walked in and found her lying naked on the floor, the water running. He carried her dead body in his arms. He took her outside and tried to resuscitate her, somehow thinking she was drowning. We do not talk about this. He says only, There was the wreckage of that. — Katie Roiphe

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. — Adolf Loos