Fariba Quotes & Sayings

Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting ... Take photography on as a passion, not a career. — Alex Webb

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie. — John Howard Lawson

We wished our two souls
might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us. — Robert Lowell

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city. — Janine Benyus

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Bailey, do you ever hear music in your head ? You know, like even when there's none playing. — J.J. Howard

God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humbles mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise ... it [is] the the intimacy with which his eye rests upon the scene. It [is] his Paris. A man does not need to be rich, nor even a citizen, to feel this way about Paris. Paris is filled with poor people - the proudest and filthiest lot of beggars that ever walked the earth ... And yet they give the illusion of being at home. It is that which distinguishes the Parisian from all other metropolitan souls.
When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glisttering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit ... Nobody knows what it's all about. Nobody directs the energy. Stupendous. Bizarre. Baffling. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated. — Henry Miller

One thing he had to give her credit for, she'd never called it a Relationship.
"What is it then, hey," he'd asked once.
"A secret," with her small child's smile, which like Rodgers and Hammerstein in 3/4 time rendered Profane fluttery and gelatinous. — Thomas Pynchon

While the mind sees only boundaries,
Love knows the secret way there. — Rumi

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. — Honore De Balzac

War can become an addiction for its victims because it provides them meaning at the same time that it strips them of decency. — Fariba Nawa

He's a boy, you see, and, as such, what does he care about reputation? But you? The reputation of a girl, especially one as pretty as you, is a delicate thing, Laila. Like a mynah bird in your hands. Slacken your grip and away it flies.
Fariba to her daughter Laila — Khaled Hosseini

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world. — Kate Mara

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away. — Octavia E. Butler

As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it. — Edmund Crispin

It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful. — Virginia Woolf