Nicapur Quotes & Sayings

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.
(from The General's Legacy) — Adrian G. Hilder

Love was a form of blindness that closed the eyes to the most glaring faults. — Alexander McCall Smith

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. — Rumi

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile. — Adriana Trigiani

Few are the foreheads which like Shakespeare's or Melancthon's rise so high, and descend so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all above them in the forehead's wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer. — Herman Melville

The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games. — Tom Bissell

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men. — C.L. Bryant

It is their everlasting switching that is the dangerous thing, not what they choose — Sheila Heti

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it. — Ross Macdonald

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age. — Charles Eisenstein

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s. — Roger McGuinn

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best. — Jim Jarmusch

I've told you before, I don't comprehend religion, although conviction is a concept I'm beginning to get. In any case, someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up. — Gregory Maguire

Love is the true God - not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis. — Osho