Suraiyya Quotes & Sayings

The poem finds the word that finds the feeling. — Jeanette Winterson

It is I who drink lonely
Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns,
It is I who laugh, it is I who make love
And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying
With a rattle in my throat. I am sinner,
I am saint. I am the beloved and the
Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no
Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I. — Kamala Suraiyya Das

A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably — Kamala Suraiyya Das

Do not think that I have come to abolish q the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but r to fulfill them. 18For truly, I say to you, s until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. — Anonymous

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation. — Ben Edwards

At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna
Loved her for the last time and left ...
That night in her husband's arms, Radha felt
So dead that he asked, What is wrong,
Do you mind my kisses, love? And she said,
Not not at all, but thought, What is
It to the corpse if the maggots nip? — Kamala Suraiyya Das

Like other women writers of my class, I am expected to tame my talent to suit the comfort of my family. — Kamala Suraiyya Das

Playing with Aaron Rodgers, every time I went into a game you always felt like no matter what happens, he was going to bail you out somehow. He was that kind of guy. He was one of the three or four guys you have in the league right now that no matter where you are or what's going on in the game, you have a chance with him. — Charles Woodson

I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me. And then, I just totally can't understand that. I actually can't. I get really hurt if someone doesn't like me. It's weird. — Paul Eenhoorn

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply. — Sophie Swetchine

I didn't want her to be like me, robbed of innocence and idealism, baptized in the bloody waters of randomness and cruelty, the fabric of trust forever torn. — Patricia Cornwell

Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. — Michael Newdow

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty. — Diane Kruger

No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business. — Carl Sagan

You didn't ever love him, but you were sentimental about him — Kamala Suraiyya Das

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past. — Pearl S. Buck

Life itself demands change from every dweller of planet earth. — Sunday Adelaja

If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze — Kamala Suraiyya Das

No matter how big you are, details count! — Richard Branson

Today at Nariman Point the tall buildings crowd one another. But when I was young and in love with a grey-eyed man it was a marshy waste. We used to walk aimlessly along the quiet Panday Road or cross the Cuffe Parade to walk towards the sun. We did not have a place to rest. But in the glow of those evening suns, we felt that we were Gods who had lost their way and had strayed into an unkind planet.. — Kamala Suraiyya Das

I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine. — Donna Summer

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee. — Carol Burnett