Parviz Pedrad Quotes & Sayings

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. — Bernadette Devlin

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on. — William Shakespeare

She fixed him with a long careful, searching stare that was not devoid of irony's intelligent sparkle — Milan Kundera

It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life. — Nikolai Gogol

'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man. — Seth Gabel

Through adoration, the Christian mysteriously contributes to the radical transformation of the world and to the sowing of the Gospel. Anyone who prays to the Savior draws the whole world with him and raises it to God. Those who stand before the Lord are therefore fulfilling an eminent service. They are presenting to Christ all those who do not know him or are far from him: they keep watch in his presence on their behalf. — Pope John Paul II

In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck. — Tony Trischka

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, so hot? my little Sir. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. — Albert Camus

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive. — Manohla Dargis