Pouran Farokhzad Quotes & Sayings

I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have. — Laurell K. Hamilton

You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book. — Laini Taylor

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social. — Marshall McLuhan

I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

When people stargazing, they stare at stars,
and many other things which they've already
presumed commonly and universally as stars. — Toba Beta

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it. — Poppy Z. Brite

I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it. — W.C. Fields

Only when you slice your soul open and let it bleed
and bleed
and bleed
will you finally see your passion. — Rae Jones

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet. — Shirley Manson

He looks big and tough, but he needs someone to hold him, too. — D.B. Reynolds

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air. — Frances Wright