Islamicate Quotes & Sayings

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve. — Edmund Hillary

I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy. — J.A. Redmerski

He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid. — Kelley Armstrong

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television. — Christine Vachon

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all ... The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being. — Huston Smith

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering
that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. — Margaret Drabble