Foroughi Bahram Quotes & Sayings

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

On Ira Gershwin:
I remember when he was given the manuscript of a novel written by a woman friend who had hopes of having it published. To his astonishment it turned out to be the dirtiest, most pornographic book he had ever read. When the lady mentioned that she intended to use a nom de plume, Ira suggested she call herself Henrietta Miller. — Oscar Levant

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God. — Smokey Robinson

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am."
I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The clips hurt. The presence of a chainsaw was terrifying. And Noah did not want to hear about insane Nazi poets. — Michael Grant

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. — Penelope Cruz

I didn't have the nicer things. I had to go out and get them. — Wiz Khalifa

Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters. — Ti-Grace Atkinson

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool. — Maria Menounos

In order to be a player on the fast track, you will need to have a plan on how to gain more and more control. On the fast track, it is control more than money that counts. — Robert Kiyosaki

I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way. — Scarlett Johansson

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful. — Noam Chomsky

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed. — Alison Weir