"In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain."

-- Jim Al-Khalili

#Book Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Years Quotes

“When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!”
“Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit.”
“You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.”
“I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.”
“Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.”
“You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling”
“Without the work, the magic wonâ€™t come.”

Source : Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.157, Random House Group
“I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.”

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