Zaban Quotes & Sayings

"Laughter is the effervescent form of holiness."
— Annie Lamott

The name Urdu, by which this language is usually known, is said to be of Turkish origin, and means literally "camp." But the Moghuls of India first introduced it in the precincts of the Imperial camp; so that as Urdu-i-muali (High or Supreme Camp) came to be a synonym for new Dehli after Shahjahan had made it his permanent capital, so Urdu-ki-zaban meant the lingua franca spoken at Dehli. — H.G. Keene

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot. — Jim Webb

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge. — Robin Wright

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself. — Marilynne Robinson

That was the one advantage of growing old - it let you be nasty with impunity. — Jacob M. Appel

Probably nothing, but it was one of those thoughts like toothpaste: Once it's out, you can't squeeze it back in. — Kate Brady

But then I met you, and every single day since then, I've wondered how someone could be so beautiful if there wasn't a God — Colleen Hoover

I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30. — Vanessa Hudgens

I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time when it will be silenced, an art that can become inflamed with its own virtue, fall in love with its own decline, and court its own demise. — Jorge Luis Borges

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life. — C. R. Smith