Diwana Quotes & Sayings

My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old. — Ameen Rihani

Ilm Ne Mujh Se Kaha Ishq Hai Diwana-Pan
Ishq Ne Mujh Se Kaha Ilm Hai Takhmeen-o-Zan

Knowledge said to me, Love is madness;
Love said to me, Knowledge is calculation

Band-e-Takhmeen-o-Zan! Kirm-e-Kitabi Na Ban
Ishq Sarapa Huzoor, Ilm Sarapa Hijab

O slave of calculation, do not be a bookworm!
Love is Presence entire, Knowledge nothing but a Veil. — Muhammad Iqbal

We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is all quite regular and official, for most tombstones, like most ballot papers, are marked with a cross. — G.K. Chesterton

People get so upset about lyrics, and they're probably totally cool with horror movies. That doesn't really make sense. — Chris Reifert

That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside - it was coming from within me. — Amanda Hocking

Parasols with miniature electric gas lamps atop them were all the rage. Hers had a pink light in it, which meant she belonged to a family that allowed its children to follow the quaint old practice of dating. White indicated that a girl's family would arrange a courtship for her, and blue identified a married woman. Green stood for a woman who wasn't keen on men at all, but whose head could be turned by the sight of a pretty skirt. — Lia Habel

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that. — Mike Lowry

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss. — Bat For Lashes

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. — Joyce Carol Oates

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist. — Seth Godin