Dhul-Nun al-Misri famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.
I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

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