Ismail Kadare (Ismail Halit Kadare) Quotes

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

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• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Know
  • Always
  • Busy

• One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Want
  • Doing
  • New York

• I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

  

  Neko Case
  • Time
  • House
  • Free

• Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Society
  • Way
  • Littles

• The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Children
  • Power

• Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Dinner
  • Bed
  • Boston

• Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Book
  • Giving

• You're the best athlete I've seen in high school.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • School
  • High
  • Athlete

• Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

  

  Diogenes
  • Poverty
  • Philosophy
  • Teach

• If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Married

• There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Water
  • Deeds
  • Touching

• Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Chamber

• Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • May
  • Knows
  • Interest

• Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

  

  Ismail Kadare
  • Instruments
  • Mouths
  • Lilies