Farish Quotes & Sayings

There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star. At — George Lucas

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart. — Uma Krishnaswami

What? You'd dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?
That's when you need a drink the most. — Charles Bukowski

Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn't that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too. — Farish A. Noor

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him? — John Selden

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good. — Edith Wharton

She preferred the idea of me more than the real me, I think." "Sexy — Giselle Fox

Sometimes when we spend too much time staring into the darkness, we forget there is light. — Lincoln Farish

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist. — Michel Faber

Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you're not experiencing success. — Ehab Atalla

Scared people are creative people. — Jodi Meadows

So when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic. — Andrew Davidson

The story rolls along like drumbeats from house to house. — Terry Farish

Then what in your opinion is a good story?'
'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous villain whom we must love also. All the elements properly balanced and mixed together, item after item, like a perfect meal with a dance of tastes. There you have it. — Vikram Chandra

We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem. — Patrick McGrath

Repeat after me... life... it's only a movie. — Dan Farish

He needs a purpose, even if it kills him. — Jennifer Arnett

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable
but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again. — Teresa Flavin

The United States succeeded by State action in prohibiting the slave-trade from 1798 to 1803, in furthering the cause of abolition, and in preventing the fitting out of slave-trade expeditions in United States ports. The country had good cause to congratulate itself. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted. — Rudyard Kipling