Mahdad Allal Quotes & Sayings

If I flew for you, you would still be standing. — Heather Nova

Socrates and Phaedrus, like Odysseus, must sail by the Sirens without being enchanted: instead of listening to their voices, they will outdo them with their own logos. . . . Plato's Odysseus does not even let the song of the Sirens enter him but deafens it with his own rational discourse. Philosophy is itself a Sirens' song, the antidote against the dispersion and drowning of the soul into the body, that is, against the ultimate wandering. — Silvia Montiglio

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood. — David Hockney

I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I'm afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can. — Keith Kekic

Without pain, How can we know joy? — John Green

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners. — Mahatma Gandhi

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method ... rendering the God-spirit in the mountains. — Marsden Hartley

I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do. — Willem Dafoe

The wisdom is your glory. By wisdom you will be fair to yourself and fair to others. — Nirmala Srivastava