Mohamed Ali Lasmar Quotes & Sayings

In my walks I would fain return to my senses. — Henry David Thoreau

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up. — Salman Rushdie

This book has two determinants: on the one hand, an ideological critique of the language of so-called mass culture; on the other, an initial semiological dismantling of that language: I had just read Saussure and emerged with the conviction that by treating "collective representations" as sign systems one might hope to transcend pious denunciation and instead account in detail for the mystification which transforms petit bourgeois culture into a universal nature. — Roland Barthes

Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me. — Daria Snadowsky

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces. — James Clerk Maxwell

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer. — Bill Bryson

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — H.G.Wells

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life. — Claire Denis

As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill. — Milton Rokeach

grotesque countenance — Graham Downs

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off. — Ronald Reagan

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up. — Mahatma Gandhi

Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man. — Chris Matakas

This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits ... People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential. — Yehuda Levi