Hanyut Faizal Tahir Quotes & Sayings

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. — Cesare Pavese

The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow. — Leonard Mlodinow

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, If you want something to look interesting, don't light all of it. — Joe McNally

All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses. — Buddy Valastro

My earliest memories of that school consist of the thrashing I received because I did not know the details of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. At present there are many schoolmasters who would like to thrash me because I remember that exodus from Egypt too well."15 What might seem to be the young Herzl's indifference toward his nation's past takes on a completely different meaning in his account to Reuven Brainin, his first biographer: — Georges Yitzhak Weisz

VIEW FROM A HILL
I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surveying behind me a wasteland
Of dried-up promise.
While the lights below twinkle
With dull mocking uncertainty.
There isn't much left to look forward to,
And the looking forward of the past has been belied. — John Tottenham

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently. — Nat Wolff

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire. — Morton Feldman

Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. — Henry David Thoreau

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music. — Jim Capaldi

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. — Dave Eggers

All of this took about a minute, but time stretches out when you're witnessing an abomination. — Jeremy Robert Johnson