Farnaz Quotes & Sayings

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better. — Wesley Snipes

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead. — Kurt Vonnegut

I close the world away. Lock it up. Turn the key so tight. Blackness buries me in its folds. — Tahereh Mafi

He sees his world in black and white: Filthy snow, a hollow sky, the gray cement of the walls - water stains, like giant ink spills, eating into them - and his own skin, an ashy patina enveloping his body. Even the wounds on his feet, hardened and crusted, have lost their red. He has come to think of colour as something fantastic that exists only in his mind - the red of a tomato sliced and salted at the lunch table, the deep blue of a lapis lazuli on Farnaz's finger, the honey hue of his daughter's hair in the sun. — Dalia Sofer

The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war. — Farnaz Fassihi

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped. — Farnaz Fassihi

And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it — Dalia Sofer

As a pale-skinned, dark-haired Celtic sort, he didn't care for the heat. — Maggie Stiefvater

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity. — Randy Alcorn

Since when are you so 'faithful'? just a couple of years ago you would show up in your tight jeans and borrow our car to pick up one of your five girlfriends. You think that beard makes you a man of God? — Dalia Sofer

Do it with great love or forget it. — Debasish Mridha

Social Media begins with a story - your story. — Germany Kent

A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change
they do, I know, God help 'em. — George Eliot

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement. — Farnaz Fassihi

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement. — John Byrne

Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result. — Bruce Lee

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. — Dean Koontz

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong. — Benjamin Graham

I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping. — Farnaz Fassihi

A person without a dream never had a dream come true. — David C.M. Carter