Semaan Kosseifi Quotes & Sayings

Do you really know what they want?" "I don't have an absolute confirmation, but almost anything would be better than what I've prepared for." I laughed hoarsely. "Then, I'll probably find out that what they want is even worse than that. It usually works that way. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches? — Ken Follett

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency. — Ann Radcliffe

For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and I guess there are other references in other films I make - the similar type of image. But I think it's interesting, it's breaking through the mystery, or maybe it stays in the fog ... we don't really know. Where is he at the beginning of the film, who is he? — Martin Scorsese

People still tweet me like, "Oh my god, I just found out you guys are married!" Which makes sense to me because I'm not the type of person who is like, "I love this actor, let me find out everything about their lives." — Mary Elizabeth Ellis

The GDP rises whenever money changes hands ... The whole thing is reminiscent of Edward Abbey's reflection that growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of the cancer cell. — John Robbins

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I'm an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16. — Augusten Burroughs

Salt and citrus," Cairdine Farrier said, joining her at the stern with a lemon in each hand. "The chemicals of empire."
"Salt to preserve food for long journeys," Baru recited. "Citrus for scurvy. — Seth Dickinson

If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best. — Fannie Flagg

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. — Sigmund Freud

Some memories are presents that I'm unable to unwrap over and over. — Brian James

Conversation. Hell is just the best God can do for some people. — John Ortberg