Faryal Mukhtar > Faryal's Quotes

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
― William Shakespeare

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones

“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation, even insistence,for others to join him in the act of imagining...His reticence [to add stage directions] made his works wonderfully elastic. It also made them demnding--sometimes maddeningly so--for directors and actors who had to figure out at every turn why these words and no others needed to be said right here and now. But Shakespeare was also demanding of his audiences: 'Yes,' you could almost hear him say, 'you are sitting in a fairly barren wooden theater. But dream yourselves to France. To a seacoast in Bohemia. To a magic-haunted island in a tempest-tossed sea. I dare you.' -Kate Stanley”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― Arrigo Boito

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Time is a river, and books are boats.”
― Dan Brown

“Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Ambassador's Mission

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

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. ”
― Spider Robinson

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid