Beilani Quotes & Sayings

Beethoven
his thoughts moving at
the speed of sound
transforming emotion into music
and for a moment
it was like joy
was a tangible thing
like you could touch it
like for the first time
we could watch love and
hate dance together
in a waltz of such precision and beauty
that we finally understood
the history wasn't important
to know the man
all we ever had to do was
listen. — Shane Koyczan

Every state is different,' Lumbly was saying. 'Each one a state of possibility, with its own customs and way of doing things. Moving through them, you'll see the breadth of the country before you reach your final stop. — Colson Whitehead

I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero. — Upamanyu Chatterjee

Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter. — Milton Mayer

He thought of Jesus as a great teacher, a rebel who refused to see the poor and disenfranchised mistreated. — Alice Hoffman

You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity. — Pascal Bruckner

I would burn down the world for you," he whispered fiercely. "Your world or my own. I would rip down the entire city with my bare hands without a second thought. I don't need to taste anything else, I don't need a comparison. — Delilah S. Dawson

Oh, don't worry. If you didn't say some stupid things every once in a while, you certainly wouldn't fit in with this group. — Brandon Sanderson

Kissing was making love, kissing was fucking, kissing was sex with their lips. — Lauren Blakely

I kind of understand now why people freak out when they see celebrities that they love, because that's how I feel about every single Muppet. — Rashida Jones

I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy - sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. I try to listen to my own internal guide. — Michelle Obama

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather. — Alexei Sayle

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing — Dante Alighieri

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman. — Gene Simmons