Jamshid Hekmat Quotes & Sayings

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself [ ... ]. — Kate Chopin

When my mind is operating at its peak, it should depress me to think that this is the best I can do, because it's not very good at all. When my mind is operating normally, I should be even more depressed. — John S. Hall

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself ... Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. — George Gershwin

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. — Thomas Moore

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive. — Arthur Frederick Saunders

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life. — Kelly Brook

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. — Gerald May