Mottahedeh Quotes & Sayings

If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while! — Dervla Murphy

Iranian high school students learned how to draw microscopes and how to write letter-perfect descriptions of the way in which microscopes worked, but the microscopes in Iranian schools usually remained locked up as property too valuable to be put in students' hands. The — Roy Mottahedeh

Well?" she asked when she picked up.
"Do you think we're really alone in the universe?"
"Were you abducted by aliens again?"
"No, thank goodness. Once was enough for me."
"Oh, whew. So, what happened with Reyes? Did you see him?"
"Saw him. Argued with him. Barfed. — Darynda Jones

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like. — Shania Twain

speak across borders
even if borders pass through every word. — Ingeborg Bachmann

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. — Rhys Ifans

You know, I used to think you were snarling at me, but now I see that...it's actually just your face. — Suzanne Wright

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you. — Richie Norton

I love the adrenaline of my bike. I always have. I try my best to let it chase away the feel of Olivia at my back, but I think nothing short of a week locked up in a bedroom with her can accomplish that. And oh what a week that would be. — M. Leighton

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly. — Gregg Easterbrook

Three young cats with starlight in their eyes and the whisper of ancient wind in their fur.
-Rock, Cats of the Clans — Erin Hunter

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! — Johnny Vegas

There's nothing like a player playing the game of life with a coach rooting them on. — Nicole A. Walker

What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience. — Lars Ulrich

The guy that's going to kick your ass for hurting her. — Richelle Mead

Under the New Deal, governmental goons smashed down doors to impose domestic policies. G-Men were treated like demigods, even as they spied on dissidents. Captains of industry wrote the rules by which they were governed. FDR secretly taped his conversations, used the postal service to punish his enemies, lied repeatedly to maneuver the United States into war, and undermined Congress's war-making powers at several turns. When warned by Frances Perkins in 1932 that many provisions of the New Deal were unconstitutional, he in effect shrugged and said that they'd deal with that later (his intended solution: pack the Supreme Court with cronies). In 1942 he flatly told Congress that if it didn't do what he wanted, he'd do it anyway. — Jonah Goldberg