Djinn Mythology Quotes & Sayings

I feel the American's eyes on me, looking as though I'm more than an amputee, a number, a chore. He crosses over to me, his strides large, a broad smile on his lips. "Veda? Did I say your name right?" "Yes, Doctor." "Call me Jim. Please." His left hand in his pocket, he holds his right hand out to me. As though we're equals. "Thank you, Doctor - I mean - just Jim," I say. He chuckles. "Haven't done anything yet." He has. No older man ever invited me to shake hands. No other adult ever asked me to call them by name. He even said "please" although I'm a patient. — Padma Venkatraman

tidy bed was a restful bed — Nora Roberts

I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh. — Clyde Edgerton

What you wish to be, be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead. — Andrew Sean Greer

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. — Boris Pasternak

I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is. — Raymond Burr

There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today. — Jan Chipchase

He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man. — Emily Bronte

The number of hours the average American watches TV has remained steady, at about four and a half hours a day, every day (by age sixty-five, a person will have spent twelve uninterrupted years in front of the TV). — Neil Postman

I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making. — Michael Bloomberg

You're never terrified when you say what you mean - are you? — Mo Mowlam