Fadwa Tuqan Quotes & Sayings

This, then, is the fate of your sons,
Oh Rome, oh celebrated power!
Singer of love, singer of the gods,
Tell me, what is glory?
A hollow rumbling from the grave, a praising voice,
A sound speeding from generation to generation?
Or under the shade of a smoky shelter
The tale of a wild gypsy? — Alexander Pushkin

Who cares?" I told him. "I'm already in trouble. Keep talking. — James Patterson

The finest fury is the most controlled. — Christopher Hitchens

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked. — Melissa George

I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me. — Ian Frazier

But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers, with their escort of blue-coated highway patrol-men, it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped. — Truman Capote

My god," Bankole said. "This country has slipped back two hundred years." "Things were better when I was little," Emery said. "My mother always said they would get better again. Good times would come back. She said they always did. My father would shake his head and not say anything. — Octavia E. Butler

Society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation. — John Le Carre

But every so often I look at Tobias, and he looks back at me, like we're passing fear back and forth between us. — Veronica Roth

He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her ... One last time ... — Malorie Blackman

I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain. — Peter Stormare

I don't do drugs, though. Just weed. — Dave Chappelle