Rumana Rahman Quotes & Sayings

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. — Terry Southern

Can the fish love the fisherman?
[Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?] — Martial

They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. — Mary Oliver

Art is right reason in the doing of work. — Thomas Aquinas

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories. — Fatih Akin

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it. — Alan Jackson

And what would you know of escape, precious mad thing that you are? — Lisa Mantchev

The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m. — Caitlin Doughty

I can write songs without a guitar. — Meredith Brooks

Not much was said of Gaberone except its riches and its danger. The prisons were said to be in-escapable, the shanty towns cheap, the police didn't bother the illegal immigrants unless they were caught committing crimes. A dangerous paradise. — Thabo Katlholo

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates. — Leon Krier

When you give everything, you have nothing to lose. — Kate McGahan