Tahira Syed Quotes & Sayings

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. — Ricky Schroder

Here he is, the man who knows things and who should want to help me. But it is so hard to bring up things with any weight at all to a man like this. A man like this doesn't have real conversations. — Megan Abbott

My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present — Charles Baudelaire

When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went through a period where we wore those little ribbon ties, little bows. We tried to figure out what was our appropriate dress. — Hillary Clinton

Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it. — Chapman Cohen

There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part of me where I'm like, "I really didn't like that movie, but I want to work with that director because he loves actors." — Anton Yelchin

On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character. — Kevin Hart

I wrote the album in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever. — Feist

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution. — Dennis Kucinich

Robert Jordan knew that now his papers were being examined by the man who could not read. — Ernest Hemingway,

I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore. — Paul Auster

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss. — Maureen O'Hara

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore. — Bradley Cooper

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan. — Angie Martinez