Esfandiar Farzad Quotes & Sayings

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there ... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world. — Rula Jebreal

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do. — Jonas Salk

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep. — Mac Miller

Canadian researchers found those with low self-esteem actually felt worse after repeating positive statements about themselves. They said phrases such as "I am a lovable person" only helped people with high self-esteem. The study appeared in the journal Psychological Science. ... They found that, paradoxically, those with low self-esteem were in a better mood when they were allowed to have negative thoughts than when they were asked to focus exclusively on affirmative thoughts. ... Repeating positive self-statements may benefit certain people, such as individuals with high self-esteem, but backfire for the very people who need them the most. — Augusten Burroughs

They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts! — Roseanne Barr

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty. — Clarence Darrow

The life of membership with all its cumbers is traded away for the life of employment that makes itself free by forgetting you clean as a whistle when you are not of any more use. — Wendell Berry

What was boring was somehow more elegant, more perfect, for it was incontrovertible. The boring was everything that certainly was. The boring was everything that had stood the test of time. The boring was that set of truths that were so long fixed that erosion had begun to sand them down. The boring was geological; the boring was universal. The boring, therefore, was preferable. — Rick Moody

Injustice is relativelyl easy to bear; what stings is justice. — H.L. Mencken

Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else — Robin Hobb

The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.' — Ted Sarandos

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. — Ice Cube