Mahmoud Abudeif > Mahmoud 's Quotes

“وكانت رتابة حياة الكبار تثير شفقتي دائماً , وحين أدركت أن هذه الحياة ستكون عما قريب من نصيبي , أستولى علي الضيق”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
― Johnny Depp

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“Let's put on our Thinking Caps and see if we can't have an idea,' said Cricket, passing the caps around.”
― Anna Rose Wright, Whirligig House

“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
― Paul Newman

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“الشمس تعتقد أن الأرض مضيئة و لا تعرف أن هذا نورها هيّ”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, تويتات من العصور الوسطى

“لست ذكيا .. أنا مجرد شخص يعرف كيف يستحضر المعلومة في الوقت المناسب .. أعتبر نفسي أمين مكتبة عقلية يجيد عمله لا أكثر ..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, تويتات من العصور الوسطى

“هو فعلا لا يقرأ بتاتا إنه يبحث فقط في الكتب عن آراء تشبه آراءه ليشعر أنه عبقري”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, تويتات من العصور الوسطى

“تضخمت عضلاته لدرجة لم يعد معها جسمه جميلا .. لم يعد بشريا أصلا .. إنه أقرب للكابوريا منه إلى البشر”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, تويتات من العصور الوسطى

“عندما تسمع أغاني كلاسيكية أو موسيقى كلاسيكية يقولون لك لائمين إن النبي عربي ، فإذا جرؤت على تصحيح إعراب كلمة أو همزة قالوا لك في سخرية : ماتخليكش حنبلي كده”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, تويتات من العصور الوسطى