Bassiouni Group Quotes & Sayings

I'm done with trying to be perfect. A perfect body belongs to somebody else - and it's not me. — Geri Halliwell

to teach without zest is a crime. — Virginia Woolf

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. — Sears, Roebuck And Co.

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. — Henry Miller

Ricky clearly never hurried, he was his own lazy happening. — Alan Hollinghurst

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? — Nicholson Baker

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise. — Stephen Hopkins

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? — Bill Gates

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things. — Colm Meaney

The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy. — Shane Claiborne

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. — Warren Bennis

You can't tell your teacher that my name is James Witherspoon. Atlanta ain't nothing but a country town, and everyone knows everybody.
Your other wife and your other girl is a secret?, I asked him.
He put me down from his lap, so we could look each other in the face. No. You've got it the wrong way around. Dana you are the one that's a secret. — Tayari Jones

Our humanity is our burden, our life. We need not battle for it. We need only to do what is infinitely more difficult: that is, accept it. — James Baldwin

I don't shave," she interjected, stopping my train of thought again. "You don't shave?" I asked, my eyes traveling to her bare legs. "No." "Ever?" I asked inanely. Her legs had been smooth when I took off her sandal last night. "Yes, ever," Layna answered. "Everywhere? — Libby Austin

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. — Dan Millman