Khojasteh Tehran Quotes & Sayings

These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest chimeras, go down in the end in agony, but leave behind a record of new heights scaled and new rewards won for all mankind; the vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again. — Evelyn Waugh

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. — Maya Lin

And he thought that, had he been wearing his guns, he might well have drawn one and put a bullet in Susan Delgado's cold and whoring little heart. — Stephen King

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading ... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. — Junot Diaz

We have missed because we tried to miss, I suppose. — Thomas Hardy

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

It learned you can't love anything too much in this world. — Ray Bradbury