Shihadeh Carpets Quotes & Sayings

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. — Michael Crichton

If America loses World War III [the Cold War], it will be because of the failure of its leadership class. In particular, it will be because of the attention, the celebrity, and the legitimacy given to the 'trendies'--those over-glamorized dilettantes who posture in the latest idea, mount the fashionable protests, and are slobbered over by the news media, whose creation they essentially are. The attention given them and their 'causes' romanticizes the trivial and trivializes the serious. It reduces public discussion to the level of a cartoon strip. These trendies are ready with an opinion at the drop of a microphone, and their opinions are treated as news--not because they are authorities, but because they are celebrities. — Richard M. Nixon

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray. — Dominic Cooper

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes! — Wendell Phillips

Jesus walked on water, so maybe he makes aquifers, too. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place. — Michael Chabon

Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise. — Gail Simmons

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. — Karen Blixen

Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker? — Cosmo Knox

For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy. — Zack Snyder

For to die with honour is far better than to live disgraced. — Anonymous

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. — H.P. Lovecraft