Mozhdeh Shamsais Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

The Red Cross irritated Ugwu; the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What we think is life. What we do just defines it. — Debasish Mridha

Man cannot live by incompetence alone. — Charlotte Whitton

We're finished, God. From now on, you answer your own fucking prayers. — Brent Weeks

I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily. — Joyce Carol Oates

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

I laugh when people say they don't like poetry. They listen to poetry every day, what do they think music is? — Shannon Lynette

Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"
Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled: - and now I like ye better! — Robert Louis Stevenson

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean? — Bob Woodward

You know what the worst part about my drinking is? When I'm drunk I slur. You know, like I say racial slurs. Wow, nobody likes that at a barbeque. — Amy Schumer

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself. — Henry Adams

What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody. — Abraham Verghese

The drink was like water, indeed very like the taste of the draughts they had drunk from the Entwash near the borders of the forest, and yet there was some scent or savour in it which they could not describe: it was faint, but it reminded them of the smell of a distant wood borne from afar by a cool breeze at night. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. — Orson Scott Card