Ghonimah Quotes & Sayings

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing? — Julian Fellowes

I just don't know if people actually perceive which events are miracles and which are not. There are no doubt many miracles claimed which were not miracles at all. There are also probably many miracles that no one recognized when they occurred. — Orson Scott Card

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it's all going to turn out. — Laurie Foos

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference. — George Edmund Street

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. — J.M. Barrie

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated. — George Orwell

The happiest endings -- I think they're endings that feel like beginnings. — Kristin Kladstrup

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors. — Denis Parsons Burkitt

Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced. — Philip Jones Griffiths

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. — Nawal El Saadawi

And I thank you for bringing me here For showing me home For singing these tears Finally I've found that I belong here. — Martin L. Gore

He lowers his head while we're flying and touches his lips to mine. His kiss is hot and wet as it intensifies. — Susan Ee

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims. — Ralph Lauren

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner. — Gloria Steinem

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them. — John James Cowperthwaite