Aiman Farid > Aiman's Quotes

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.”
― Norman Mailer

“America…is being lost through television. Because in advertising, mendacity and manipulation are raised to the level of internal values for the advertisers. Interruption is seen as a necessary concomitant to marketing. It used to be that a seven- or eight-year old could read consecutively for an hour or two. But they don’t do that much anymore. The habit has been lost. Every seven to ten minutes, a child is interrupted by a commercial on TV> Kids get used to the idea that their interest is there to be broken into. In consequence, they are no longer able to study as well. Their powers of concentration have been reduced by systematic interruption.”
― Norman Mailer

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“تعرفي لو الراجل بيقلّع مراته الدبلة بنفسه ساعة الطلاق ، كانت نص حالات الطلاق ، لاء نصها إيه ، كانت أغلب حالات الطلاق محصلتش ..”
― Laila Mamilly, آخر ما قالته لي

“غيرني تماماً ذلك القط , وجعلني أعيد ترتيب علاقتي بالآخرين , وتخيلت أني قادر على التقرب من الجميع , فقط لو أعطيت لهم الفرصة للتقرب مني .”
― أحمد مهنى, اغتراب

“الذين يسافرون يتغيرون.. تتغير نظرتهم للحياة.. تتغير فكرتهم عن الرفاهية.. عن رائحة الهواء.. عن معنى الراحة.. وربما عن الانتماء”
― أحمد مهنى, مزاج القاهرة