Chowdry Quotes & Sayings

We share our secrets when we're ready and not a minute before. — Linda Evans Shepherd

The chowdry, or burqa
the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud
is a sensory deprivation isolation chamber. It is claustrophobic, may lead to anxiety and depression, and reinforces a woman's already low self-esteem. It may also lead to vitamin D deficiency diseases such as osteoporosis and heart disease. Sensory deprivation officially constitutes torture and is practiced as such in the world's prisons. — Phyllis Chesler

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author. — Isobelle Carmody

We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire. — Karyn Kusama

this is actualy a poem

we have been called
naive
as if it were a dirty word,
whe have been called
innocent
as though with shame
our cheeks should burn
so
we visit with
the careful idols
of cynisism
to learn to sneer
and pant and walk
so as not to feel the scales
of judgement rub wrongly
but we say
some things must
remain simple
some things must remain
untouched
and pure
lest we all forget
the legacy we begot us
the health of our origins
the poetry of our fundemental selves — Jewel

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious. — Gore Vidal

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him. — Basilea Schlink

Half the people I know have dead animals in their freezers: reptiles, birds, mammals. Is that normal? — David Sedaris

An enlarged Union based on Nice is not in the interest of any Member State ... This is not a threat. This is a messenger delivering news. — Joschka Fischer

I can't stand stage mothers. It doesn't work. You definitely feel that with the new generation of pop stars right now they've all managed to work it out for themselves. You have to have confidence in that. When you're young, you know your market better than I will. I love having young people on the show because I can learn from them. — Simon Cowell

In ecological terms, we are almost paradoxical: large-bodied and long-lived but grotesquely abundant. We are an outbreak. — David Quammen

never to ask a Lapp how many reindeer he had. Such a question, he said, would be as tactless as to ask an American how large a bank balance he carries. — Carveth Wells