Surayya Quotes & Sayings

We'll see what he says when I stab him with my stiletto. — Victoria Ashley

Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am. — Norah Lofts

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery. — Deepak Chopra

Every relationship is a cost benefit calculation; either it is material or spiritual. — M.F. Moonzajer

I love the French. They're the biggest film buffs and protectors of cinema in the world. They really look out for the filmmaker and the rights of the filmmaker, and they believe in final cut. — David Lynch

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. — Rudyard Kipling

Always ask yourself what will make you happy over the long term. — Steven Redhead

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. — Tom Stoppard

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain. — Cyrano De Bergerac

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you ... — Colin Firth

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway. — Joanna Trollope

I don't believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I'd rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because I don't talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have an attitude. — Shailender Singh

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody. — Hans Rosling

I think maybe today a poem I hope
after breakfast I start trying
pulling it out of my own gut
mostly by force — John Thomas Idlet

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken. — Audre Lorde