"The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Reality Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Speechless Quotes

“Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.”
“We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.”
“Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that God has forgotten them and that they can't rise because of their color.. we can only build... with faith in ourselves and with self-reliance, believing in our own possibilities, that we can rise to the highest in God's creation.”
“I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.”

Source : "Quotes of the Week". www.independent.co.uk. October 20, 1995.
“You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.”
“We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.”
“The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.”

Source : Peter Tatchell's lecture at St. Botolph's Aldgate in London, March 21, 2000.

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