Shabiha Sheikh Quotes & Sayings

For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
I have a truant been to chivalry;
And so I hear he doth account me too. — William Shakespeare

Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge the reading of others but to take the measure of ourselves. Of those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers. The silence about this was odd, both because there are so many of us and because we are what the world of books is really about. We are the people who once waited for the newest installment of Dickens's latest novel and who kept battered copies of Catcher in the Rye in our back pockets and backpacks. We are the ones who saw to it that Pride and Prejudice never went out of print. — Anna Quindlen

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right. — Joanna Lumley

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. — John Lyly

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure. — Ornette Coleman