Fouad Makhzoumi Quotes & Sayings

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Life: in all it's pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words, then I have accidently done something brilliant in my life. — John O'Callaghan

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season. — Lou Gehrig

In many ways, my favorite place is the one I haven't been to yet. You have this wonderful, innocent curiosity about places you haven't visited. Nothing is quite like setting foot somewhere for the first time; it is an intense, beautiful feeling. — Alex Strohl

We get offered so few real victories. It's a question I can't even really answer: what is the victory I want? — Jesse Ball

Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems. — Jim Jordan

My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading. — Clive James

Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic. — Victor Hugo

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment. — David Viscott

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area. — Olivier Martinez

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas? — Ama Ata Aidoo