Salimeh Pessaran Quotes & Sayings

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up — William Faulkner

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill. — John Scalzi

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies. — Robert De Niro

Thinking that the next person, the next relationship, the next experience will free you - these are foolish thoughts of people who are bound again and again to birth, death and rebrith for thousands and thousands of incarnations. — Frederick Lenz

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Anytime you part with money, bless it and say - 'There's always more where that came from.' — Marie Forleo

Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard Hughes, I could have him give a monologue about how he's terrified to touch a doorknob. But on screen, you know, working with Marty Scorsese in 'The Aviator,' that became the series of images that told a story. — John Logan

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish. — Ben Elliot

Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love. — Elisabeth Of Wied

I didn't do it,' he insisted.
'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked.
'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me? — Michael Buckley

I once ask God for the world, It was placed upon my shoulders, I supose that means it is mine.... — Dollar Bill McGonigle

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better
her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties — Virginia Woolf

Marx ... Lenin ... Mao Tse-Tung ... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions. — Dorothy Day