Khorsandi Quotes & Sayings

The fatal futility of Fact. — Henry James

Bards don't believe in goodbyes - we know that the roads we walk are winding, and we generally tend to come back to people and places we've known and been before, and often at just the right time." I smiled. "We'll meet again. — Sean Gibson

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken. — Shappi Khorsandi

The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster. — Nick Cave

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality — Frederick Lenz

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Get still, get calm, and let your true self out. — John Douillard

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. — Marshall McLuhan

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena ... The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena. — Ernst Mach

The tatty bears and the chubby brown-haired doll with big brown freckles and all the others had insisted on coming and lay defiantly in my suitcase refusing to budge and make room. — Shappi Khorsandi

Does the king know you're back?"
"Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence."
"That sounds ... hard."
"Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation."
"I have no idea what you just said."
"Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation. — Brandon Sanderson

We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent. — Elizabeth Kolbert

But let not any one who hath a quarrel with his companion join with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be polluted, for it is that which is spoken of by the Lord. — Anonymous

It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge. — Edward Gibbon

Someone was high or brilliant or both. — Colum McCann