Shahyar Solati Quotes & Sayings

I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie. — Claude Williams

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows. — William Shakespeare

Let's say you get a present and open it and it's a fabulous diamond necklace. Initially, you're delirious with happiness, jumping up and down, you're so excited. The next day, the necklace still makes you happy, but less so. After a year, you see the necklace and you think, Oh, that old thing. It's the same for negative emotions. Let's say you get a crack in your windshield and you're really upset. Oh no, my windshield, it's ruined, I can hardly see out of it, this is a tragedy! But you don't have enough money to fix it, so you drive with it. In a month, someone asks you what happened to your windshield, and you say, What do you mean? Because your brain has discounted it. — Maria Semple

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. — Geoff Mulgan

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing. — Alexander McQueen

I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical. — Zadie Smith

I was out of Hell Fire and my black market dealer was dead. — L.A. Kennedy

When we compare ourselves to engineers or architects, we are in danger of doing everyone a disservice. — Sam Newman