Khadeeja Sheikh Quotes & Sayings

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved ... that day, you die as a writer. — Dwight V. Swain

The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion. — Ken Hill

And second, once we are caught in the pattern of creating ourselves from cultural blueprints, it becomes a primary way of receiving validation. We become unknowingly bound up in a need to please the cultural father
the man holding the brush
and live up to his images of what a woman should be and do. We're rewarded when we do; life gets difficult when we don't. — Sue Monk Kidd

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree. — Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. — Irvin D. Yalom

Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed. — Zicheng Hong

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs. — George Eliot

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have. — Maika Monroe

The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you, and I know he hit you- don't even try to pretend he didn't."
A flicker of a smile ghosted across Jace's face. "Only on alternate Thursdays. — Cassandra Clare

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there. — Anthony Hopkins

They were not in the least deterred when a celebrated Washington humorist claimed that his calculations proved that the world ended on December 31, 1999 - but that everyone had had too much of a hangover to notice. — Arthur C. Clarke

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me. — Kevin Hart