Nastaran Tavakoli Far Quotes & Sayings

Sing, Muse, of high, molded ceilings and built-in bookcases chockablock with hardcovers! Sing of armchairs with scarlet upholstery and highboys lacquered like mirrors and the elegant shadows of potted palms! Sing of a chandelier made entirely of antlers! Of what looked to be a genuine Matisse on the wall above the hearth! — Garth Risk Hallberg

How do you make love to someone when you know they'll be gone forever the next day? How do you spend the last few hours with someone when you know there will never be
anything after that? — B.G. Harlen

Some who were not yet ready to venture into the chapel on Sundays might well put in their first appearance on a Saturday night to see what Y dyn bach ('the little man') had got to say. (The Welsh term has an element of affection in it not obvious in the English) — Iain H. Murray

I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation. — Conrad Wolfram

And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed

I'm not on Twitter, but I am on Instagram and follow Lena Dunham and Usher. — Michelle Dockery

She always said you can't help people with magic, but you can help them with skin. By doin' real things, she meant. — Terry Pratchett

Father, R.I.P., Sums Me Up at Twenty-Three
She has no head for politics,
craves good jewelry, trusts too readily,
marries too early. Then
one by one she sends away her friends
and stands apart, smug sapphire,
her answer to everything a slender
zero, a silent shrug
and every day
still hears me say she'll never be pretty.
Instead she reads novels, instead her belt
matches her shoes. She is master
of the condolence letter, and knows
how to please a man with her mouth:
Good. Nose too large, eyes too closely set,
hair not glorious blonde, not her mother's red,
nor the glossy black her younger sister has,
the little raven I loved best. — Deborah Garrison

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing. — Susan Strasberg

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again. — Bobby Jindal

There'll be a sky full of babies and their shit, suspended overhead. You do not want to get caught in that rain when it falls. — Stephen Baxter

Right now, Youngster, you remind me of a mosquito buzzing over what she thinks is a nice, normal, juicy vein, angling to swoop down, stick in the old proboscis and suck up some blood to take back to the kids. Little does she know that she's hovering over an artery and when she sticks it in, she will be exploded by a back draft of arterial spray. - Chris Harvey — Laura Buzo

Morning conversations should be between very close friends or lovers, and otherwise avoided entirely. — Gene Doucette