Mazumder Shirin Quotes & Sayings

I received in inheritance neither god nor a given spot on earth from where I can draw the attention of a god: no one either legated me the well disguised fury of the skeptic, the Sioux guiles of the rationalist or the burning innocence of the atheist. So I dare not throw the stone neither at the one who believes in things which inspire me only doubt, nor at the one who cultivates his doubt as if it was not, just as well, surrounded with darkness. This stone would hit me myself because I am well certain about one thing: the need of consolation that dwells within the human being is impossible to satisfy. — Stig Dagerman

If you want success, then be your own success story. — Steven Cuoco

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [ ... ] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes. — Diana Abu-Jaber

Any one of these partners would have disinherited his son on the question of rebuilding Tellson's. In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws and customs that had long been highly objectionable, but were only the more respectable. — Charles Dickens

The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flattering and crazy, but it's Spider-Man they're in awe of, not Jake Epstein. — Jake Epstein

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation. — Jeff Buckley

Once, when we were wild, sugar intoxicated us, the first narcotic we craved and languished in. We've tamed, refined it, but the juice from a peach still runs like a flash flood. — Stephanie Danler

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter. — Kenneth Faried

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science. — Virginia Postrel

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded. They're very worried about how people are going to react to what they say. — Jamie Johnson

all right is almost always where we eventually land, even if we fuck up entirely along the way. — Cheryl Strayed

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing. — Kristen Stewart

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read. — Benjamin Franklin

What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... Where else would the human subject have sex but in the head? Sexual desire was a play of signifiers, an infinite determent and displacement of anticipated pleasure which the brute coupling of the signifieds temporarily interrupted. — David Lodge

In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work! — Lizzie Brochere