Mustapha Adib Quotes & Sayings

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings? — Michael Leunig

It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point. — Isobelle Carmody

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds? — Mark Skousen

To write good history is the noblest work of man. — John Dickson Carr

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind. — Neko Case

Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you're dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got you, got you, got you! — Robin Hobb

I said that we should be all right if we had some cigarettes. I only meant this as a joke; nevertheless half an hour later McNair appeared with two packets of Lucky Strike. He had braved the pitch-dark streets, roamed by Anarchist patrols who had twice stopped him at the pistol's point and examined his papers. I shall not forget this small act of heroism. We were very glad of the cigarettes. — George Orwell

If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development. — William Wardell

War among men defiles this world. — T. S. Eliot

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology. — John Sexton

I don't admit that a woman draws that well! — Edgar Degas

The new fans of Japan won't be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Maybe she had assumed that what she and Sam had was veering in a permanent direction because they were at an age when people got married. She thought suddenly of how often during their relationship they'd found themselves surrounded by other couples, functioning as a unit and finding that it was easier to do so. Because couples were what society wanted, what it was built for. But maybe they hadn't simply been moving toward anything, maybe they had simply been coasting on inertia. — Emily Gould