"In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the sparks and diamonds fly. Add to this, the lubrication which music can provide, and you've got a workable literary form. Even when we reach the stars, we'll still be gazing down into the gutter."

-- Suhayl Saadi

#Stars Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Dirt Quotes

“The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.”
“Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster
“Emerging markets are hugely important.”
“Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.”
“Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.”
“Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.”
“The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.”

Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.25, Open Road Media

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