Dahina Quotes & Sayings

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved. — Giacomo Casanova

There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history. — John Zachary Young

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American! — Zoe Saldana

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do. — Henry James

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. — Olivia Wilde

I'm not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general - it's all self-awareness. — Mary Lambert

For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas. — Scott Bakula

I think my track record speaks for myself ... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate. — Fatou Bensouda

Want! You must want something. What do you want? — Tobias Wolff

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately. — Kenneth Williams

And it came to her that the pleasure and stability of dining rooms had always occurred against such a backdrop, against the catastrophic background of universal chaos; such moments of calm were things as fragile and transitory as soap bubbles, destined to burst almost as soon as they blew into existence. Groups of friends, rooms, streets, years, none of them would last. The illusion of stability was created by a concerted effort to ignore the chaos they were imbedded in. And so they ate, and talked, and enjoyed each other's company; this was the way it had been in the caves, on the savannah, in the tenements and the trenches and the cities huddling under bombardment. — Kim Stanley Robinson