Zouhair Faddoul Quotes & Sayings

[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing. — Michel Foucault

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas. — Charlie Rose

[Mrs. Ferrars] was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proprtioned them to the number of her ideas. — Jane Austen

Take away the people's bread and you get discontent; take away their money and you get anger, but take away their heroes and you get revolution. — Alex Jackson

I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life
always growing and increasing
is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests. — Thomas Huxley

It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell us things about the world that are not only to our real advantage, but will never be revealed by science. — Simon Conway Morris

A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change. — Richard Whately

Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down. — James Bay

I'm a drinker with writing problems. — Brendan Behan

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall. — Jennifer Egan

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth. — Ronald Reagan

Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only 'wants' are for others to feel as good as you do. — Gary Hopkins

Writing is a lonely business. — Sherman Alexie

Decide for yourself. Everybody reacts in a different way. — Italo Calvino

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him. — Kate O'Mara