Amnadheif > Amnadheif's Quotes

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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

“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

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

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

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.”
― Stephen Fry

“If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.”
― Nataly Kelly

“Grammar is politics by other means.”
― Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

“There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.”
― Werner Erhard

“Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics

“يا إلهي, كل الأوطان تنام وتنام، وفي اللحظة الحاسمة تستيقظ،الا الوطن العربي فيستيقظ ويستيقظ، وفي اللحظة الحاسمة ينام !”
― محمد الماغوط, سأخون وطني

“ماذا فعل المواطن العربي لحكامه خلال 30 سنة حتى يعامل هذه المعاملة ؟
أعطاهم أولاده للحروب
وعجائزه للدعاء
ونساءه للزغاريد
وكساءه لليافطات
ولقمته للمآدب والمؤتمرات
وشرفاته وموطئ قدميه للمهرجانات والخطابات .
وطلب منهم نوعاً واحداً من الحرية وهو النوع المتعارف عليه في أبسط الدول المتحضرة .”
― محمد الماغوط, سأخون وطني

“أمة بكاملها تحل الكلمات المتقاطعة وتتابع المباريات الرياضية أو تمثيلية السهرة والبنادق الإسرائيلية مصوبة إلى جبينها وأرضها وكرامتها وبترولها”
― محمد الماغوط, سأخون وطني

“عجباً... كل هذه القمم، والشعوب مازالت في الحضيض!”
― محمد الماغوط

“لقد أصبح البشر كصناديق البريد المُقفلة, متجاورين ولكن لا أحد يعرف ما في داخل الآخر .”
― محمد الماغوط, سأخون وطني

“ما من جريمة كاملة في هذا العصر سوى أن يولد الإنسان عربياً .”
― محمد الماغوط, سأخون وطني

“العرب كطائرة الهليكوبتر.. ضجيجها أكثر من سرعتها”
― محمد الماغوط, سياف الزهور

“أسوأ ديمقراطية في الدنيا أفضل من أعدل دكتاتور”
― محمد الماغوط

“اتفَقوا...... على توحيد الله و تقسيم الأوطان........!”
― محمد الماغوط

“كنا أصحاب حق، فصرنا أصحاب سوابق”
― محمد الماغوط, سياف الزهور