Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Hisham Matar Quotes

In Libya, I did well at school because I was clever. In Egyptian public school, I got the highest marks for the basest of reasons. And in the American school, I struggled. Everything - mathematics, the sciences, pottery, swimming - had to be conducted in a language I hardly knew and that was neither spoken in the streets nor at home.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Home Mathematics School Swimming

Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.

Money Dress Way Out Still Kids

There is no such thing as the perfect meal; one can always do better.

Better Perfect Always Meal Thing

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Time Creative Enough You Play Want

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Love Love Is Fate Too Much Always

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

Spiritual People Think Never Dealt

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

Music Someone You Look Like Knew

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

Alive Events First Easter Christ

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

Boy Never Deal Been Like He

I think I was just very determined, on a whole other level, just to play in this league.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Think Play Determined Level Whole

I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.

Doing Play Go Movies Never

Republicans believe that problems are best solved at the level closest to the people and that the nation's strength comes from the diversity of its people, not from an all-powerful central government.

Christine Todd Whitman

Strength Best Diversity Government

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

People Law Wish You Rules I Can

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Hisham Matar