Raouf Halaby Quotes & Sayings

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out. — Wallace Stegner

When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight. — Chris Tomlin

I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different — Dave Abrams

I can read your body language like a conversation — Dom Kennedy

It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the day to avoid harmful solar rays. — Nabil N. Jamal

It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me
Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you — Eminem

Lula hauled herself up off the floor and put her hand to her neck. "Do I got holes? Am I bleeding? Do I look like I'm turning into a vampire?"
"No, no, and no," I told her. "He doesn't have his teeth in. He was just gumming you."
"That's disgustin'," Lula said. "I been gummed by a old vampire. I feel gross. My neck's all wet. What's on my neck?"
I squinted over at Lula. "Looks like a hickey."
"Are you shitting me? This worthless bag of bones gave me a hickey?" Lula pulled a mirror out of her purse and checked her neck out. "I'm not happy," Lula said. "First off I don't know if I got vampire cooties from this. And second, how am I gonna explain a hickey to my date tonight — Janet Evanovich

When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, a drunk, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity. — Chuck Palahniuk

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all. — Ann Patchett

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life means progress, and progress means suffering. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature. — Byron Ortiz

Coffe is the perfume of morning. — Charlaine Harris

When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners. — Barry Eisler