Famous Tariq Ali Quotes & Sayings

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats. — Rick Bragg

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature? — Rick Yancey

How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death
a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire
and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather ... What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday
if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm
would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise? — Robert Nathan

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. — Tom Hiddleston

One thing I have learned for sure. A woman is like a living Violin. She would only offer herself to this who can get the best tunes out of her. — Sameh Elsayed

Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning. — Frederick Lenz

Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red. — Cecilia Bartoli

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer. — Cynthia Ozick

She thinks about the salt point, that mysterious, elusive moment of change. — Paul Russell

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone. — Morgan Wootten

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. — Harrison Ford

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition — Lorraine Hansberry

Bad things are gonna' happen to you, because they happen to us all. And worrying won't stave the really bad things off. Don't make the mistake of comparing your twisted-up insides to other people's blow-dried outsides. Even the most privileged person in this stadium suffers the torments of the damned just going about the business of being human. — Mary Karr