Ijtema Quotes & Sayings

The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident. — T.C. Boyle

Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it's the times that don't feel real that we remember forever? — Michael Biondi

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed — Algernon Blackwood

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff ... — James Ellroy

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?' — John Mayer

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven . — John Campbell Shairp

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. — Nhat Hanh

Just because you have to walk sometimes doesn't mean life isn't taking you places. — Melodie Ramone

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. — Mahmoud Darwish