Mahmoud Darwish Coffee Quotes & Sayings

Longing is the call of ney to ney to restore the direction broken by the horses' hooves in a military campaign. It is an intermittent ailment, neither contagious nor lethal, even when it takes the form of an epidemic. It is an invitation to stay up late with the lonesome and an excuse not to be on equal footing with train passengers who know their own addresses well. It is the transparent fabric of that beautiful nothingness, gathered to roast the coffee of wakefulness for the dreams of strangers. — Mahmoud Darwish

And you became like the coffee,
In the deliciousness,
and the bitterness
and the addiction. — Mahmoud Darwish

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care. — Edith Wharton

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James

I don't want to hear any of your worries or your doubts or your remote possibilities based on so little evidence even you can't explain where those thoughts are coming from aside from the ever-popular, 'I just have this feeling'. — Jessica Lave

He was never good in a fight. Preferred to sleep off the anger and pretend that everything was fine in the morning. — Alessandra Torre

I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids. — Sabrina Vourvoulias

Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you're not going to change a thing like that in a hurry. Look around you. All the women nicely groomed and attractive and good-looking, and the men no better than fat slugs, for the most part, or skinny runts. Unshaved and smelly as often as not. They get away with everything, men. They can do every disgusting thing they like and no one ever says a thing. — Fay Weldon

Now, here I am, a stranded woman marching down a spooky, remote road with no one to hear me scream. I'm in a damned plot for B horror flick! — Jacquelyn Frank

It's not a real place, or a place that you can stay for long; it's a somewhere-over-the-rainbow archetype but rooted in genuine emotions. No matter what Guests' care might be, when they step onto Main Street they enter an evocation of the ideal home town. This is, in a sense, the 'home' to which Dorothy Gale wanted to return. Main Street welcomes all Guests with warmth as comforting today as it was to the post-war society of the 1950's for which it was originally created. — Leslie Le Mon

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else. — Mati Klarwein

Some people want everything to be perfect before they're willing to commit ... But commitment always precedes achievement. — John C. Maxwell

I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot; — Jamie Lee Curtis

I know mine own! — A.R. Braun

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding. — Nicole Appleton