Shamim Akhtar Quotes & Sayings

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. — Jane Austen

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. — Norman Lock

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down. — Ashley Judd

I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in the right order, and you've created a moment in time where the reader forgets about the late car payment, the dirty dishes, the impending workweek. You have created a state of bliss. Or negligence, depending on your perspective. — Darynda Jones

Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all. — Frederick Lenz

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. — Elizabeth Taylor

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet. — Plato

Wonder , or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord
"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better. — Alfred Lord Tennyson