Masjidil Haram 2020 Quotes & Sayings

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk. — Carice Van Houten

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray. — Louie Giglio

Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous. — Jane Hirshfield

Mama's gaze pierced her. As a girl, Minerva had envied her mother's blue eyes. They'd seemed the color of tropical oceans and cloudless skies. But their color had faded over the years since Papa's death. Now their blue was the hue of dyed cambric worn three seasons. Or brittle middle-class china. The color of patience nearly worn through. — Tessa Dare

Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures. — Rita Mae Brown

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood. — Jason Akermanis

The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth. — Gina McCarthy

I've got a better idea," says my mother. "Tell me about what you did today. Tell me about New York." So I do, I tell the lifelong New Yorker who chucked it for the woods about the streets of the city: how the subway was so crowded this morning I had to let four trains pass in a row and I was a half hour late to work; how I had a meeting in Times Square and I saw an army of painted topless women posing with tourists for money; how I saw two people dressed up as Disney characters get into a fistfight; how I ate a hot dog from a stand after my client meeting bombed and when I finished it I ate another, on one of the chairs scattered in Bryant Park. A string quartet was playing nearby, under a sponsor banner. "The music part was the part that saved me," I say. "All of it would have saved me," says my mother. — Jami Attenberg

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people. — David Adjaye

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. — Anne Rice

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles. — Agatha Christie

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. — Deborah Needleman

There is no failure, only a process which is leading us to become the greatest version of ourselves. — Ralph Smart

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology. — Astro Teller