Sameeha Elwan Quotes & Sayings

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course. — Myrtle Reed

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside. — Pat Brown

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. — Phillip E. Johnson

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way. — Pope Francis

He pivoted on one buttock and broke wind. Dukhi leaned back to allow it free passage, wondering what penalty might adhere to the offence of interfering with the waft of brahminical flatus. — Rohinton Mistry

The refugee card was and continues to be an insult to remind us of the little that refugees get in comparison with what they have really lost. Would a bag of flour compensate for the farmland they once had? Would a bag of sugar make up for the bitter misery those people have always felt after losing their sweet homes to dwell in refugee camps? Would the two bottles of oil make them forget their olive trees, which had been mercilessly uprooted as they themselves were? Or maybe it is simply a declaration that they are temporary refugees who once had the land which, as long as this card is still in their hands, would still be waiting for them to return. Only a shot of sharp pain brought me back to the present. — Refaat Alareer

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22. — Jenny Slate

Because that's how love works. It doesn't die, even when you don't feed it. That's just the way it is. I wouldn't change it, even if I could. Loving her has become a part of who I am. — R.K. Lilley

I'm a working-class person, working with class. — Karl Lagerfeld

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records. — Marc Maron

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. — Quincy Jones

Nothing but good times ahead. — Jennifer Crusie

I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights. — Rudy Giuliani

Listen to your inner callings, ignore how others might want to direct your life energies, and allow yourself to radiate outward what you feel so profoundly and deeply within you. — Wayne W. Dyer

I have a hit TV show. — Kim Kardashian

Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge. — Sebastian Smee