In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.
He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.
I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.
all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.
They could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine 5 years from now saying, "Remember sesame seeds? What happened? All the buns are blank!"
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, "This is one of the great ones. "