Abdullah Alqallaf > Abdullah's Quotes

“It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society”
― Samuel Shem, The House of God

“كان فعلها منزها عن العلل والأغراض و الحاجة .. كان فعلها مثل زهرة تمنح عطرها لأنها لا تستطيع أن تفعل شيئاً غير أن تمنح عطرها .”
― أحمد بهجت

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
― Samuel Johnson

“If you don't want me to come then I'll come" she said. This sort of thing passes for logic among siblings.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“What's it going to be then, eh?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“That's what it's going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere with your little droog Alex, suffering with him, and you have viddied some of the most grahzny bratchnies old Bog ever made, all on to your old droog Alex. And all it was was that I was young. But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes.

But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning young earth and the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lipmusic brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that call.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange