May Ziade Quotes & Sayings

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. — Rene Descartes

Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable. — Stanislaw Lem

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid. — Yelawolf

He paused as if waiting for her to say something, but all she could do was stare at him and wonder why he couldn't see that she was a ghost and not really there at all. — Karen White

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that. — Lauren Mayberry

The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life. — Michel Gondry

My dream ... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person. — Martha Stewart

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton. — Marshall McLuhan

God intends ... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator. — John Stott

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. — Rick Fox

My fays shall lullaby you as we cuddle up on my mattress of dandelion down. — Angela Carter

God smiles as He has always smiled;
Ere suns and moons could wax and wane,
Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled
The Heavens, God thought on me His child;
Ordained a life for me, arrayed
Its circumstances, every one
To the minutest; ay, God said
This head this hand should rest upon
Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun. — Robert Browning

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain. — Marian Keyes