Neree Solih Quotes & Sayings

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines. — Jim Brown

As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life. — Philip Levine

Historians get to make their living by reading other peoples mail. — Unknown

A little downy girl still wearing poppies
still eating popcorn in the colored gloam
where tawny Indians took paid croppers
because you stole her
from her wax-browed and dignified protector
spitting into his heavy-lidded eye
ripping his flavid toga and at dawn
leaving the hog to roll upon his new discomfort
the awfulness of love and violets
remorse despair while you
took a dull doll to pieces
and threw its head away
because of all you did
because of all I did not
you have to die — Vladimir Nabokov

It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain. — Marion Nestle

gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible. — K.P. Yohannan

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done. — Damien Hirst

I found her more alluring than any woman I'd known in mortal life. Even — Anne Rice

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What are the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible. — Rainbow Rowell

If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids — Jimmy Carr

I know people who say Hollywood broke her heart, and all that, but I dont believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn. — George Cukor

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty. — May Sarton