Ibrahim Khan > Ibrahim's Quotes

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

“Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
― Paula Danziger

“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
― William S. Burroughs

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
― Martin Amis

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“Keep on truckin'”
― R. Crumb

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
― Antonin Artaud

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
― Margaret Landon