Mervat Tallawy Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. — Samuel Pepys

What are you doing Muggle Studies for?" said Ron, rolling his eyes at Harry. "You're Muggle-born! Your mum and dad are Muggles! You already know all about Muggles! — J.K. Rowling

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies. — Susan Sontag

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else. — Cornel West

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight. — Lew Welch

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss. — Benjamin Franklin

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of the void. It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own. It seemed now to play itself, he and his fellow actors aiding it with their parts. When the curtain fell on the last scene he heard the void filled with applause and, through a rift in a side scene, saw the simple body before which he had acted magically deformed, the void of faces breaking at all points and falling asunder into busy groups. — James Joyce

If all men are good, there can be no Auschwitz. — Miklos Nyiszli

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination. — Ed Helms

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit. — Louie Giglio