Sirajul Hasan Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too ... — Kurt Vonnegut

Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them. — Gerry Harvey

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts. — Tim Hansel

Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility . — Dawud Wharnsby Ali

Madonna is a living, breathing cash register. — Boy George

How could this word be a party of May's vocabulary if neither one ever taught her? Just like that, she has deepened. Beneath her blond-white hair are these two new eyes that see what he can't guess. She is capable of withholding, then revealing. How has she learned to be this new thing that she is? He cups his hand to the back of her head, and holds her close, feeling already that all of it will pass too soon, that she is already becoming her own self, composed of secret knowledge. — Emily Ruskovich

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself. — Ezra Pound

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. — Bernard M. Baruch

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting. — Christina Baker Kline

checklists seem able to defend anyone, even the experienced, against failure in many more tasks than we realized. They provide a kind of cognitive net. They catch mental flaws inherent in all of us - flaws of memory and attention and thoroughness. And because they do, they raise wide, unexpected possibilities. But — Atul Gawande

It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late. — Janet Morris