محمد سلامة > محمد's Quotes

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Daniel Handler

“و إذا استوحش الإنسان تمثّل له الشىء الصغير فى صورة الكبيرة و ارتاب و تفرّق ذهنه- فرأى مالا يُرى و سمع مالا يُسمع و توهم على الشىء اليسير الحقير، أنه عظيمٌ جليل”
― عمرو بن بحر الجاحظ

“They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.”
― Daniel Handler, Adverbs

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the “suspension of disbelief” and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.”
― John Granger

“Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.”
― John Granger, The Deathly Hallows Lectures: The Hogwarts Professor Explains the Final Harry Potter Adventure

“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”
― Christopher Paolini

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. ”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“ثائر اليوم هو طاغية الغد”
― جورج اورول

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

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

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

“من الحماقة أن تتوقع هزيمة عدوك وأنت تقلده، وأنت تتبع حركاته وأسلوبه، لابد أن تفاجئه بأسلوبك أنت، لابد أن تبتكر ألف حركة في كل مرة يكتشف هو إحدى حركاتك.”
― Ibraheem Abbas, هناك