Wahb Ibn Quotes & Sayings

I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since. — Michael Scott

Knowledge is always one of the fiercest of advantages a lady can have. — Heather Lyons

If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you. — Wahb Ibn Munabbih

Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink ... — Honore De Balzac

One can imagine that if humanity suddenly disappeared from the planet, the cat would shrug its shoulders, raise its tail, and return to its forest habitat, there to live as its ancestors have done for two million years, forever in search of something small, furry, and squeaky to play with. — Eric Chaline

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried. — Amber Heard

I am not a desperate, unsteady child who throws his trust around. I am not damaged. — Veronica Roth

See, they say it's 'survival of the fittest', but you and I really know that it's 'survival of the most heavily armed — Lia Habel

Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying. — Wahb Ibn Munabbih

For the first time she called it sex. With no time or desire to analyze her words, he shook off an unidentifiable hollow sensation forming in his middle. — Kim Carmichael

Why speculate when you can calculate? — John C. Baez

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. — Ian Fleming