Toubia Nahid Quotes & Sayings

I don't spend a lot of time taking polls around the world to tell me what I think is the right way to act. I've just got to know how I feel" (George W. Bush, November 2002). — Daniel Kahneman

Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves. — Kurt Vonnegut

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love. — Virginia Woolf

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that. — Al Pacino

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems. — David Mumford

The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin. — Eve Ensler

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. — Agatha Christie

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished. — Norman Douglas

Show me a woman with both feet planted firmly on the ground - and I'll show you a girl who can't get her knickers off. — Kathy Lette

I try not to pay much attention to what people say-I just try to concentrate on the game. — Jose Reyes