Zubeen Quotes & Sayings

I cannot but feel compassion when I hear some trig, compact-looking man, seemingly free, all girded and ready, speak of his 'furniture,' as whether it is insured or not. 'But what shall I do with my furniture?' ... It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run. — Henry David Thoreau

I know it sounds a little pessimistic, but it's true. You'll never be done preparing, and you'll never be ready. None of us will. — Creek Stewart

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning. — Thomas C. Foster

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you. — Charles Spurgeon

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle. — Thomas Jefferson

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. — Thomas Carlyle

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it. — Elizabeth Strout

But with whom, in the Pooh world, could a sexually and politically aroused Kanga speak? — Frederick C. Crews

There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own, irremediable appetites, can never move the heart for not one phrase in it hints at the possibility of redemption. — Angela Carter

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work. — Hussein Chalayan