Kureishi My Beautiful Laundrette Quotes & Sayings

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. — David Hockney

I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism? — Tony Campolo

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs. — Karl Kraus

Let me tell you something. When there is a penalty kick, most people think that the penalty taker is in control. But they are wrong. The penalty taker is full of fear, because he is expected to score. He is under great pressure. He has many choices to make, and as he places the ball and walks back to make his run, his mind is full of the possibility of failure. This makes him vulnerable, and it makes the keeper very powerful. — Mal Peet

We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. — Richard Eyre

I thought I'd be reading a new book today, but it doesn't feel right, or I don't feel like it. Some days are not new-book days. After — Rabih Alameddine

I was raised by a solitary woman to be a solitary child, and that was, I now saw, what I had hopelessly become. — Alice Sebold

Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing. — Jerome Groopman

He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice. — Victor Serge

Sure. But if the book sucks, we're re-evaluating the friendship. — Colleen Hoover