Salam Alaikum Quotes & Sayings

To improve their sense of balance," Mr. Foster explained. "Doing repairs on the outside of a rocket in mid-air is a ticklish job. We slacken off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down. They learn to associate topsy-turvydom with well-being; in fact, they're only truly happy when they're standing on their heads. — Aldous Huxley

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings. — Walter Cronkite

Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks. — George W. Casey Jr.

A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious. — Seamus Heaney

I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death - I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist. — Graeme Simsion

Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives. — George Dantzig

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. — Alexandra Kerry

Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins. — Richard Dawkins

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. — Diane Setterfield

The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up. — Diane Chamberlain

When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

She could not speak; she was crying. She turned away from him, and pressed her handkerchief to her eyes. "Let her have her cry out. I'll sit down and wait," he thought, and he sat down in an arm-chair. Then he rang and asked for tea to be brought him, and while he drank his tea she remained standing at the window with her back to him. — Anton Chekhov

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book. — Ian McKellen

Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body. — Richard M. Schulze