Tawfiq Quotes & Sayings

If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl. — Aubrey O'Day

A taste for better stuff is cultivated only through experience. — Barbara Kingsolver

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle. — Tawfiq Al-Hakim

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters. — Tawfiq Al-Hakim

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. — Carrie Fisher

Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. 317 What is decreed must be, and be this so. 318 — William Shakespeare

Jung said that beautiful women were sources of terror. That as a general rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. Anna — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. — Peter Lynch

There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style. — Tawfiq Al-Hakim

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly. — Frank Herbert

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler. — Tawfiq Al-Hakim

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies. — Rusty Schweickart

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed ... Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing. — Tawfiq Al-Hakim

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony. — Christine Feehan

You okay, chuck?
I nodded, or tried to, anyway. To be honest, I was pretty confused and disorientated. The three thoughts circling round my head were How was I going to get to my toilet now?, Oh my God, I can see Evan's cock! and Did Rai just say he wanted untying? — Josephine Myles

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human. — Abraham Maslow

Oh- and Anastasia, I'm glad Miss Kavanagh couldn't do the interview. — E.L. James

Don't ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan. — K. Howard Joslin

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge. — Elisha Cuthbert