Niddal Elkhoury Quotes & Sayings

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. — Anthony Burgess

it is very important to the traveller, whether the moon shines brightly or is obscured. It is not easy to realize the serene joy of all the earth, when she commences to shine unobstructedly, unless you have often been abroad alone in moonlight nights. She seems to be waging continual war with the clouds in your behalf. Yet we fancy the clouds to be her foes also. She comes on magnifying, her dangers by her light, revealing, displaying them in all their hugeness and blackness, - then suddenly casts them behind into the light concealed, and goes her way triumphant through a small space of clear sky. — Henry David Thoreau

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this. — Confucius

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage. — Kathy Baker

My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it. — Brad Thor

One thought fills immensity. — William Blake

Oh, yes. I know all about vampires and their crazy ways. Apparently, Fernando didn't have the same reluctance as Matthew and Ysabeau did to tell vampire tales. — Deborah Harkness

I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't! — JR

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war. — Roger Sherman

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions. — Samuel Johnson

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you. — Archie Panjabi

If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening. And we're in it! — Sylvia Boorstein

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually. — Czeslaw Milosz