Islamic Oasis Quotes & Sayings

It has come to the point where if I know I'm leaving a house with a man, I can factor in a bathroom visit or a phone call or both, and when I'm done, he'll almost be done tying his shoes. — Mindy Kaling

Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say. — George W. Bush

Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard the first note of R&B artist Chrisette Michele's debut CD, I was blown away. Her voice is playful but pretty, light but strong - the woman's got soul. — Gayle King

What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared ... It's like 50% off ... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it. — Richard Prince

Better to start too slowly and build up," said a piece of text in italics, "than start too quickly and give up. — Nicci French

In 2002, a Cochrane Collaboration review of the evidence concluded that low-fat diets induced no more weight loss than calorie-restricted diets, and in both cases the weight loss achieved "was so small as to be clinically insignificant." A similar analysis was published in 2001 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In this case, the authors identified twenty-eight relevant trials of low-fat diets, of which at least twenty were also calorie-restricted. The overweight subjects consumed, on average, less than seventeen hundred calories a day for an average weight loss of not quite nine pounds over six months. — Gary Taubes

It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives. — Jose A. Aviles

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.' — Zig Ziglar

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician. — Bahman Ghobadi

SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change - like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen's University in Ontario, can in some respects impair our judgment as much as being legally drunk. (There's something wonderfully vindicating about this analogy.) — Jennifer Senior

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture. — John McLaughlin

It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases ... This legislation sets forth the policy of the United States to protect and preserve the inherent right of American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiian people to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religions — Jimmy Carter

I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls. — Don DeLillo