Hanif Qureshi Quotes & Sayings

After everything that's happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn't life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But it's the little stuff that paralyzes her: talking, eating, dressing, sleeping. Everyone in school is afraid of the apocalypse; she is afraid of living through it. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. — Virginia Woolf

I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it. — Laura Dekker

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are — Tove Jansson

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives. — Marcus Aurelius

Strike, meanwhile, had seen just enough of Robin to be shocked by her appearance. He had never seen her face so pale, nor her eyes so puffy and bloodshot. Even as he sat down at his desk, eager to hear what information on Whittaker Shanker had brought to his office, the thought crossed his mind: What's the bastard done to her? And for a fraction of a second, before fixing all his attention on Shanker, Strike imagined punching Matthew and enjoying it. — Robert Galbraith

Ignore the whisper of fear, let your inner ability to take over because it's meant to be your guide. — Euginia Herlihy

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears ... wi th one chord — Carlos Santana

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si. — Phil Robertson

Each day, each moment
is a step into the unknown.
How can we feel anything
but amazement? — Ivan M. Granger

Everyone I love, I need you now. — Tegan Quin

Power tires only those who do not have it. — Giulio Andreotti

I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger. — Meredith Brooks

When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the woman watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she puts her arm around him and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and I don't blame her and as I open my magazine my heart breaks and I hope that the little boy doesn't grow up to be anything like me. — James Frey