Monica Ali Quotes

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

Monica Ali

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• We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Understand
  • Slaves
  • Whatever

• We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Christian
  • Going

• I'm only a human being.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Age
  • Space
  • Red

• The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Nails

• There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Come

• Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Looks
  • Middle East
  • Unions

• The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Giving
  • Ugly

• The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Joy

• Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Hero

• It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

  

  Euripides
  • Said
  • Gods
  • Gifts

• Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

  

  Epictetus
  • Concern
  • Regard
  • Says

• Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Eye
  • Lawns
  • Plantations

• Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Ideology
  • Multiculturalism

• When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Wonder

• I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Mad

• I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Taste
  • Eclectic
  • Nina