Masumeh Naghavi Quotes & Sayings

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot. — Stephen Fry

And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA. — Bobby Knight

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities. — Elias James Corey

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them. — Mercedes McCambridge

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about. — Ray Kurzweil

All of us make mistakes because of youth or ignorance or both. We can't do much about youth, but we can do something about ignorance. — Howard Buffett

God is love, the parson whined.
Yes, and is he also blind? — T.H. White

On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead. — Luis Suarez

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down. — Megan Fox

You want me to say that when you grow, finally, all the changes will stop, but they don't. There will be another one, another opportunity to grow, to shed your skin, to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, to break out of your cocoon like a perfect new butterfly. — Shauna Niequist

Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets. — Enver Masud

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book. — Cassandra Clare

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. — Frank B. Kellogg