Kalifeh Quotes & Sayings

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art ... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar ... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue. — Jeanette Winterson

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry. — Peter Garrett

My soul abhors a falsehood — Horace Walpole

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. — Mark Strand

As she searched, she looked down at the fallen architecture and read the names graffitied on its sides. Gracus loves Lucinda. Ethan loves Sarah. Michael loves Erin. For what seemed like days she ran her fingers over the names carved into the fragmented bones of ruined loves, stepping around the broken pillars of unkept vows and dusting headstones in the graveyard of love with her hands. Every kind of death had a resting place in the dry lands.
She walked until her feet bled. — Josephine Angelini

An oath is a promise - and a promise can be made regardless of feeling. — Veronica Rossi

You do anything for the person you love," she said finally. "And then when you don't think you can give any more of yourself, you do. You keep going. Because it would kill you not to. — Anna Carey

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work — Andrew Wyeth

You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going. — Alice Sebold

Light means nothing to a blind man. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

am quite aware that I bat close to a thousand on invitations to damsels only because I don't issue one unless the circumstances strongly indicate that it will be accepted. — Rex Stout

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective. — John Smith

Gandhiji used to say, 'True democracy is not run by twenty people sitting in Delhi. The power centres now are in capital cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. I would like to distribute these power centres in seven lakh villages of India. — Arvind Kejriwal