Saciana Quotes & Sayings

What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocracies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Just like the Catholic Church in the 17th century did religious propaganda to challenge the Protestant Reformation, these ideologies are trying to define the way Muslims express Islam in the world. — Asra Nomani

I always said you couldn't trust those people from Purchasing," said the Deputy Financial Manager. "The bastards. — Terry Pratchett

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris. — Richard Tarnas

Grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave. — John Clare

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual. — Aristotle.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me. — Lauren Miller

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised." — Dustin Hoffman

Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another. — Mark Driscoll

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. — Alan Watts

On a digital continuum, you'd have well-defined processes on one end and loosely defined practices on the other end. — Pearl Zhu

On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat. — Cristina Saralegui

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce. — Abbas Kiarostami

And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers. — Gustavo Kuerten