Leilas Afrebi Quotes & Sayings

A man without scenery is completely disarmed. — Patrick Modiano

Your life is your greatest asset. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out just listening to cadences of voices and tonality and this sort of thing. — Rick Alverson

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it — Benjamin Franklin

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive. — Philip Pullman

I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice. — Rosemary Sutcliff

You know there's this gaping space between us, and if I leaned forward I'd grab Dex's shirt without ever touching him. You know there's a three-inch-thick glass wall separating us.
Now we know, too. — Rebecca Berto

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

John Muir, Earth - planet, Universe
[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal] — John Muir

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words. — Esther Hicks

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous. — Steven Wright

Eve was formed from out of his opened side, is an emblem of Christ's death, — Robert Jamieson

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness. — H.P. Lovecraft