Ihab Tarazi Quotes & Sayings

Let him who would move the world first move himself. — Socrates

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics. — Iain Banks

On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there. — Emmanuel Lubezki

It is impossible to stand for intellectual freedom without grappling with censorship. — Frances M. Jones

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. — Kurt Huber

My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars. — Karel Appel

If wishes were horses, what the heck would I need wishes for? — Elisabeth Wheatley

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune. — Louis Armstrong

Working with my brother is something that I've always wanted to do. He's one of my best friends. — Matt Czuchry

In the bibulous days of Shakespeare, the peg tankard, a species of wassail or wish-health bowl, was still in use. Introduced to restrain intemperance, it became a cause of it, as every drinker was obliged to drink down to the peg. We get our expression of taking a man "a peg lower," or taking him "down a peg," from this custom. — William Shakespeare

I don't believe in one ideal beauty. — Zac Posen

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

It was new to Emily to part with any person, with whom she was connected, without feeling of regret; the moment, however, in which she took leave of M. and Madame Quesnel, was, perhaps, the only satisfactory one she had known in their presence. — Ann Radcliffe

If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck. — Denis Johnson