Mahfuz Natok Quotes & Sayings

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories. — Michael Ondaatje

Beautiful things should not be kept behind glass, they should be used. Just as beautiful women should live fully and not let herself turn into a hothouse flower, pampered and useless. — Lisa Cach

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible. — Humphry Osmond

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind. — Ayn Rand

Yes, and had your hotel proved slightly less psychotic, matters would never have got as far out of hand as they have. — Richard K. Morgan

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. — Dalai Lama

I have never been lost but I was bewildered once for three days. — Daniel Boone

I'm a mama's boy above all. — Shaquille O'Neal

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them. — Bob Woodward

As Wessner struggled to his feet, he resembled a battlefield, for his clothing was in ribbons and his face and hands streaming blood. "I--I guess I got enough," he mumbled. "Oh, you do?" roared Freckles. "Well this ain't your say. You come on to me ground, lying about me Boss and intimatin' I'd stale from his very pockets. Now will you be standing up and taking your medicine like a man, or getting it poured down the throat of you like a baby? I ain't got enough! This is only just the beginning with me. Be looking out there!" He sprang against Wessner and sent him rolling. He attacked the unresisting figure and fought him until he lay limp and quiet and Freckles had no strength left to lift an arm. Then he arose and stepped back, gasping for breath. With his first lungful of air he shouted: "Time!" But the figure of Wessner lay motionless. — Gene Stratton-Porter

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life. — Tom Brokaw

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance. — Michael Connelly

Consistency is the key! If you can't be consistent, then you can't be anything. — Tony Gaskins

But life is for living, isn't it? We all have to find some way to carry on. — Laura Barnett

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important. — Brandon Sanderson