Divan Dan Quotes & Sayings

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix. — Delta Burke

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him. — Al-Ghazali

Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements. — Anthony Eden

ah've been on t'dole all mi life in fucking Leeds! — Tony Harrison

At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said.
'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean? — Cinda Williams Chima

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in. — Billy Bragg

What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically? — Lance Henriksen

There's something about dancing that's like being stripped naked; you have to be very self-confident to thrash around in public, deliberately attracting attention. I'd never been that way, even without the weight that once kept me in everyone's eyes. Dancers were the lightest and brightest of butterflies, while girls like me stayed low, bellies scraping along the floor, and watched from there. — Sarah Dessen

To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying — Ted Hughes