Waris Shah Quotes & Sayings

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out. — Bridgette Wilson

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty War, the ideas of Simone Weil and Lao-Tzu, information on building your sailboat or dissolving your marriage, fictional worlds and books to equip the reader to reenter the real world. They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world, which might be the magic that all those children's books were alluding to, and a library is a Milky Way of worlds. — Rebecca Solnit

Don't eat too much, and never forget to love too much. — Debasish Mridha

By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school. — Sal Albanese

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. — Alan Ball

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising. — Terry Semel

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer. — Dennis Miller

If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wait a minute, look at them. Smiling and laughing. Just having a wonderful time, enjoying themselves to the fullest. Why shouldn't they? They deserve it. It's Christmas. Their Christmas. The best day I ever had was the day Karla found me and brought me here, to my home. Ryan, Kaley, Matt and yes, even Derek, are my family too. I'm treated so well I've lost perspective. Well, what do you expect, I am a dog after all. They always find the time to take me for walks, play with me in the yard, bring me to the vet, get me in out of the heat and cold, cuddle up with me before bedtime and even celebrate my birthday. Today is for them and not for me. The least I can do is to let them enjoy it without me getting in the way. But if this continues tomorrow there'll be hell to pay! Who am I kidding, it'll never happen. — Patrick Yearly

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song? — Marty Stuart

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about. — Thomas Beecham

U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about it. — Brandon Flowers

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters. — Harold Holzer

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums. — Dan Auerbach