Nazanin Afshin-jam Quotes & Sayings

Thousands of years from now they will use my fossil remains as an example of a mistake in the evolutionary process — Tao Lin

I watched your father killed before my eyes, she might have said. — Jhumpa Lahiri

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. — Nikki Giovanni

The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics. — Victor J. Stenger

However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its doors as early in the spring. Cultivate property like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts ... Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau

Point? Maybe you aren't a Carrie or a Samantha or a Charlotte or a Miranda.
Maybe you're just you. — Jen Lancaster

I never considered myself a performance artist. — Agnes Denes

Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles. — John M Barry