Usamah Mustafa Quotes & Sayings

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz

Don't you see yourself in every picture you love? You feel a radiance wash through you. It's something you can't analyze or speak about clearly. What are you doing at that moment? You're looking at a picture on a wall. That's all. But it makes you feel alive in the world. It tells you yes, you're here. And yes, you have a range of being that's deeper and sweeter than you knew. — Didi

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous. — Haile Selassie

The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund. — Peter Lynch

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Child was a new kind of celebrity: She was a woman in her fifties, and she played herself on television. She was real. She made mistakes. Of course she was a masterful cook, but when things went wrong, she embraced the opportunity to use her mistakes to teach - here's what you should do if this happens. — Luke Barr

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good — Leslie Bricusse

Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you're starving to death. — Kevin Brooks

I am very right about my Right.
Petra Hermans - Michael Ende — Petra Hermans

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues. — Anthony Carmona

It is a metaphor for life, perhaps, in that everything is a metaphor for life. The berry season is short. So how full, exactly, do I intend to fill the box? Or, if we slice away the metaphor, we could just ask this: what does the good life look like for me? — Laura Vanderkam

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality. — Marc Collins-Rector

Oh Papa. I always felt like I had a hold on things when there was Papa to turn to. — Nancy E. Turner