Khurrum Ibrahim Quotes & Sayings

Living was living. The price was guilt and shame. — Markus Zusak

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. — Paul Kurtz

I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work. — Walter Kirn

I don't like to rehearse. And I couldn't understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor! — Daniel Day-Lewis

The emotions you feel over and over and over again provide the vibrational cellular landscape that creates or destroys your health. — Catherine Carrigan

I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen. — Thomm Quackenbush

I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you. — Shelly Crane

True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? — Stephen Jay Gould

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms. — Ann Brashares