Sinemis Candemirs Birthday Quotes & Sayings

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra. — Mira Nair

I think naturally you want to judge things. — Charles Michael Davis

There are many people who know nothing of a world in which we take the reality of the 'other' seriously. I'm running on that platform: other people in other countries are really, really real, and there has to be a way of presenting their reality that is not condescending to them or about our psycho-social needs. — Teju Cole

Live and let live.
Love thyself, in order to love thy man.
Smart, independent women attract men. — Titania Hudson

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. — Samuel Goldwyn

back even though I am about to die. "She said she loved you." I don't believe her, but I smile and kiss her forehead. — Pierce Brown

Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. — Saru Singhal

The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller

Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult has gotten earlier with TV shows that are on right now and video games. They all contribute to that. — Gage Munroe

And then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death, as a child at some rare bauble. — Edgar Allan Poe

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin. — Pope Francis

There was a small stand of trees nearby, and from it you could hear the mechanical cry of a bird that sounded as if it were winding a spring. We called it the wind-up bird. Kumiko gave it the name. We didn't know what it was really called or what it looked like, but that didn't bother the wind-up bird. Every day it would come to the stand of trees in our neighborhood and wind the spring of our quiet little world. — Haruki Murakami

A tear slipped from under my eyelid at Ivy's loneliness, her need for emotional reassurance, and her frustrations that though I could understand what she wanted, I was afraid to find out if I had the capacity to meet her halfway, to trust her. And my breath caught when she wiped the moisture away with a careful finger, unaware that it was for her. — Kim Harrison