Farzana Aziz Quotes & Sayings

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which
he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of
other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is
the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for
data, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called "this world" is the
universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by language. — Aldous Huxley

I'm George Bush. I'm the president. — Shaquille O'Neal

The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it. — Michael Jackson

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking. — Kate Jacobs

Tell me, Francis, do you buy your one-liners wholesale? Only they're well past their sell-by. — Ian Rankin

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it. — Elton John

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown. — Iris Murdoch

God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good. — Billy Graham

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church. — Lincoln Steffens

I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was written about a white whale in the South Pacific. — James A. Michener

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite — Abraham Lincoln