Firari Sevdam Quotes & Sayings

It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significantly changing its meaning, texture or value. Much prose translates fairly well from one language to another, but we know that poetry does not; we may get a rough idea of the sense of a translated poem but usually everything else is lost, especially that which makes it an object of beauty. The translation makes it into something it was not. — Neil Postman

You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar. — Harry Chapin

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. — Michael Patrick Jann

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate. — Alexander Pope

The deepest human values are universal. Without exception, people are born sweet and loving. — Mia Sage

The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait. — Ambrose

And women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be. — Bram Stoker

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night. — O. Winston Link

Wait," I said.
He glanced at me again.
I held up the severely wrinkled paper. "I'm your tutor." The doubt in his eyes kind of made me mad. Did he think I wasn't smart enough to tutor him?
"See," I demanded, shoving the paper in the space between us.
The half-smile thing he did resurfaced, and he took the paper out of my grasp. "What'd this paper ever do to you?" he said, taking in its crumpled appearance.
I scowled. For starters, it was forcing me to talk to him.
-Rimmel & Romeo — Cambria Hebert

I'm lookin' forward to doin' a lot of big things. I've been doin' a lot of big things: a lot of traveling, a lot of recording - I'm excited. — Joe Budden

In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he'd kept for himself. — Ali Smith