Taufiq Rafat Quotes & Sayings

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions. — John Philip Sousa

[Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood. — Julia Sweeney

Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty. — Debasish Mridha

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that. — Tony Goldwyn

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world. — Diego Maradona

We stand up for the farmers
Who can't keep enough to eat
We walk out for the workers
Who don't know the taste of meat
We run forward for the children
With no shoes upon their feet
We will march this kingdom down
We will break the golden crown — Shannon Hale

I just want your extra time and your ... Kiss — Prince

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government. — Ambrose Burnside

Did you know I was born in a Holiday Inn. — Bret Easton Ellis

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul. — Andrew Solomon

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk. — Michael Specter

Insofar as I liked doing things by myself, it was partly for the pleasure of telling her about them afterwards. — Julian Barnes

Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast. — Keith Miller

I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time. — Ross Thomas

I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest. — Alex Turner