Saleem Safi Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Brocklehurst, I believe I intimated in the letter which I wrote to you three weeks ago, that this little girl has not quite the character and disposition I could wish: should you admit her into Lowood school, I should be glad if the superintendent and teachers were requested to keep a strict eye on her, and, above all, to guard against her worst fault, a tendency to deceit. I mention this in your hearing, Jane, that you may not attempt to impose on Mr. Brocklehurst. — Charlotte Bronte

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. — Caspar David Friedrich

Don't spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race. — Joel Osteen

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours. — Nina Fedoroff

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted. — Katharine Graham

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. — Max Frisch

Imagine a fade-out here, if you please, or one of those discreet rows of asterisks, to indicate the passage of time - not very much time, admittedly, as one of us was out of practice and perhaps a little overexcited - anyway, we return to the scene with the two participants lying back on their pillows, bedsheets now chastely drawn up to their chins, watched silently through the doorway by a stuffed otter and the head of a china basset hound, half-hidden under a frayed gingham tablecloth. Everything was perfectly still; it felt like no one in the whole wide world was awake but us - like we had stolen a march on time, and although our problems waited for us on the other side, these moments were ours to let float by as we pleased. How sweet it was, after so much turbulence, not even to have to talk, or think. — Paul Murray

The absent are easily refuted. — C.S. Lewis

As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings. — Kether Donohue

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers. — Steven Spielberg

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. — Gore Vidal

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. — Alison Bechdel

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day. — Alain De Botton

I know it's dumb. I know I'll probably get hurt. There's a huge possibility this won't end well, but I don't care. It feels too good. He feels too good. — Nyrae Dawn

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why. — Neal Shusterman