Bassoulhneine Quotes & Sayings

Outdoors, we knew, was the real terror of life. The threat of being outdoors surfaced frequently in those days. Every possibility of excess was curtailed with it. If somebody ate too much, he could end up outdoors. If somebody used too much coal, he could end up outdoors. People could gamble themselves outdoors, drink themselves outdoors. Sometimes mothers put their sons outdoors, and when that happened, regardless of what the son had done, all sympathy was with him. He was outdoors, and his own flesh had done it. To be put outdoors by a landlord was one thing - unfortunate, but an aspect of life over which you had no control, since you could not control your income. But to be slack enough to put oneself outdoors, or heartless enough to put one's own kin outdoors - that was criminal. — Toni Morrison

When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it. — Sarah Burton

I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music. — Five For Fighting

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light. — Rudolf Arnheim

In our dreams we are always young. — Sarah Louise Delany

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business. — Ludwig Von Mises

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe. — Hiromi

To be alive is to have a story to tell. — Daniel Mendelsohn

No one's life weighs more than another. — Sarah Noffke

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character. — Randy Houser

The whistling dawn, the sussurration of the leaves, a honking goose, and then a sentimental confab at the Solid Rock Gospel Church with a wounded soul who poured his heart out to Press precisely because he was blind and therefore harmless. Since these individuals had no money, he couldn't give them financial advice, just wholehearted sympathy. As at the commune, a toddler might scramble into his lap, and while he petted the child its mother held a cookie to its mouth and another one to his to bite and chew.
A world worth living in and for. — Edward Hoagland

Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. His interests and allegiances were broad. "The world is my country," he said, "science my religion. — Carl Sagan

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am. — Nick Carter

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession. — Edmund White

I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost. — Malcolm Gladwell