Azar Nafisi Quotes
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
Quotes to Explore
-
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
-
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
-
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
-
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
-
I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
-
I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
-
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
-
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
-
I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
-
I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
-
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
-
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
-
Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
-
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
-
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
-
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
-
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
-
The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.
-
You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
-
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
-
I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'
-
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
