Qabbani Poems Quotes & Sayings

I want to take you home! And you, oh you're really sad-looking, I need to stop looking at you. This is such a bad idea, I need to get out of - Oh, I want to take you too! — Molly McAdams

To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly. — Terry Tempest Williams

Everyone calls me 'the male Jennifer Lawrence,' because I just say things because I'm random, and I do things and I don't care what people think. I think she's hilarious. — Colton Haynes

CLEOPATRA TO THE ASP

The bright mirror I braved: the devil in it
Loved me like my soul, my soul:
Now that I seek myself in a serpent
My smile is fatal.

Nile moves in me; my thighs splay
Into the squalled Mediterranean;
My brain hides in that Abyssinia
Lost armies foundered towards.

Desert and river unwrinkle again.
Seeming to bring them the waters that make drunk
Caesar, Pompey, Antony I drank.
Now let the snake reign.

A half-deity out of Capricorn,
This rigid Augustus mounts
With his sword virginal indeed; and has shorn
Summarily the moon-horned river

From my bed. May the moon
Ruin him with virginity! Drink me, now, whole
With coiled Egypt's past; then from my delta
Swim like a fish toward Rome. — Ted Hughes

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect. — Jack Nicholson

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. — John Marsden

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich. — Freeman Dyson

So foul and fair a day I have not seen. — Anonymous

What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems. — Nizar Qabbani

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact. — Voltaire

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort. — Adam Schlesinger

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy. — Henry Ford

Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?"
"Yes," he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him," and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him, too."
" Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor."
"In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch. — Cassandra Clare

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe. — Vandana Shiva

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind. — Albert Camus

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities. — Douglas William Jerrold