Dictionary of Quotes

Quotes :

1. "The optimist already sees the scar over the… "The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar" - Ernst Schroder


2. "The loveliest faces are to be seen by… "The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy" - Persian Proverb


3. "We were the only westerners in our… "We were the only westerners in our neighbourhood, ... Our goal was to cover the realities of the occupation on the ground and we had not got the same security concerns as, say, CNN. Maybe at some levels they don't trust Iraqis with their security. There's a part in the book where I'm trying to take CNN to a refugee camp, and they wouldn't go.…


4. "It is the function of creative men to perceive… "It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms -- the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." - William Plomer