Henna Art Quotes & Sayings

I had spent all the years I had been in Lo-Melkhiin's body giving power to men who I thought would use it in ways that might serve me. I had given them great art and great thoughts, and they never guessed that they fed a terrible hunger in me that would require feeding until they died trying to sate it. They had done great things and made great tales, but I had been blind. All of this time, I had had access to more power than I had imagined, and I had missed it because I saw with men's eyes. I had forgotten the girls who scrubbed the floors and spun the yarn. I had forgotten the women who dyed the cloth and worked with henna. I had married three hundred girls, and as much as eaten them all before they were done cooking. — E.K. Johnston

What is henna? More than just the art itself, the name henna is actually derived from its flowering plant. — Jamilah Izzuddin

No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde — Allen Mack

How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love? — Rachel Simon

Oh, I love you, June, I really do. It's just that you sounded so ... twat-ish just then. — Red Tash

I talk so trivially about life because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. — Oscar Wilde

I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read and you don't, you just failed to read it right. ;-) — Michael Edwards

Increasingly, Americans don't own America. — Marcy Kaptur

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. — Jorge Luis Borges

While we're obsessed with here and now, God is focused on forever. — Liz Curtis Higgs

Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding. — Steven Redhead

Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional. — Xavier Dolan