Said Sayrafiezadeh quote: "I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque."

I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write ...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work,...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, es...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the ...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of ...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age o...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father wa...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the rec...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the pap...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mothe...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies a...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore ove...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where ...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be po...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that ...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilis...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white ...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-space...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayra...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand...
SAID NURSI

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the ...
SAID NURSI

Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic ver...
SAID NURSI

In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providin...
SAID NURSI

The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of ...
SAID NURSI

There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care f...
SAID NURSI

The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
SAID NURSI

Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each ...
SAID NURSI

Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humani...
SAID NURSI

The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality...
SAID NURSI

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
SAID NURSI

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
SAID NURSI

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
SAID NURSI

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowle...
SAID NURSI

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition ...
SAID NURSI

Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronge...
SAID NURSI

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of t...
SAID NURSI

What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in ...
SAID NURSI

The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its c...
SAID NURSI

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and lo...
SAID NURSI

Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full...
SAID MUSA

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch...
SAID MUSA

We have much work ahead, to stand still.
SAID MUSA

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of...
SAID MUSA

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
SAID MUSA

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
SAID MUSA

The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, unive...
SAID NURSI

When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boastin...
SAID NURSI

كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that ...
EDWARD SAID

In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. I...
SAID NURSI

Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stage...
SAID NURSI

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affi...
EDWARD SAID

Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns ever...
SAID NURSI

The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult f...
SAID NURSI

Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It...
SAID NURSI

Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the f...
SAID NURSI

Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media p...
EDWARD SAID

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the cr...
SAID NURSI

Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, ...
SAID NURSI

Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping,...
SAID NURSI

I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims ha...
SAID NURSI

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just tw...
SAID NURSI

People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But ...
SAID NURSI

I wanted to send the car back to North Carolina intact and we did that, ... I finished 30th, which i...
BORIS SAID

I'm going to give myself a B-minus. In practice and qualifying I thought I made a lot of progress. B...
BORIS SAID

I had great restarts all day, but Tony got me and I got bogged down.
BORIS SAID

It would have been nice to finish second to Tony Stewart . He's the best right now. What he's doing ...
BORIS SAID

Each time I get into one of these cars I feel more at ease and the tension drops a few notches.
BORIS SAID

Each time I get into one of these cars I feel more at ease and the tension drops a few notches,
BORIS SAID

In our little group, the good guys are really good. We want to win. I'm going to bring my best. My n...
BORIS SAID

Lap times are a little slower. But it seems a lot faster with the curbs cut down. You'll still be ab...
BORIS SAID

I like the races when we practice and qualify on the same day. I'm not only in a routine, but more i...
BORIS SAID

Qualifying is first and foremost, ... Once we can achieve that initial goal, the next objective for ...
BORIS SAID

The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existenc...
SAID NURSI

It is clear that the camps are targets of the occupation forces.
SAID SIAM

The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings,...
SAID NURSI

Every one has a defects, so we accept in our life the one who "can" be identified with his advantage...
AHMED SAID

life is a short period, enjoy it or die quickly.
AHMED SAID

when we discover that we have the ability to advice the others we have to have also the ability to r...
AHMED SAID

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift f...
EDWARD SAID

We are not savages, we are not barbarians.
SAID JAZERI

GonziPN is infested with diehards and egocentrics and it seems intent to embrace cant and not to dec...
JO SAID

The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
SAID NURSI

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge,...
EDWARD SAID

Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God...
SAID NURSI

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an impe...
EDWARD SAID

Remember the solidarity shown to Palestine here and everywhere... and remember also that there is a ...
EDWARD SAID

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Begi...
EDWARD SAID

It is part of morality not to be at home in one's home.
EDWARD SAID

then you're corrupting the whole system.
EDWARD SAID

It's really a clash between two egos.
SALIM SAID

There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinia...
NADER SAID

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belize and the Republic of China in 1989, Ta...
SAID MUSA

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated an...
EDWARD SAID

We need to beat that finishing result, ... Last year, I just wanted to finish the race with all of t...
BORIS SAID

Until this year, I only competed in three oval point races in the Cup series, ... Racing is all abou...
BORIS SAID

Outside of Lowe's Motor Speedway (in Charlotte), we've qualified at all of the events, ... I am feel...
BORIS SAID

I am very thankful about this opportunity, but I have really missed being part of the action since W...
BORIS SAID

It's Racism at the Bottom
EDWARD SAID

As individual countries, our impacts are minimal, but as a coordinated group of countries, we can ac...
SAID MUSA

human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything bu...
EDWARD SAID

Think-ability and Animality are the mix to humanity, Control your Animality and use your Think-abili...
AHMED SAID

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to...
EDWARD SAID

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman...
EDWARD SAID

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more ...
EDWARD SAID

The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in ...
SAID NURSI

Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the univ...
SAID NURSI

Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical scie...
SAID NURSI

It will not take a modern Victorian specialist long to admit that liberal cultural heroes like John ...
EDWARD SAID

If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are ...
SAID NURSI

songkok dan kopiah
keduanya dimurkai Allah
jika gagal menjalankan perintah

song...
SALMIE SAID

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no m...
EDWARD SAID

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up,...
EDWARD SAID

I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution.
EDWARD SAID

My Lord, I couldn't remember the facts at that time. If you start asking questions on the wrong fact...
MOHAMED SAID

niggas ain't shit.
LIBIN SAID

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sp...
BEDIüZZAMAN SAID NURSî

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divin...
BEDIüZZAMAN SAID NURSî

Zambia has been very generous in hosting refugees for years. It is now up to the international commu...
AHMED SAID FARAH

There will be increased morbidity, mortality and stunted growth. Social problems, such as prostituti...
AHMED SAID FARAH

I don't know their (militants) capabilities but we're not leaving anything to chance. The assurance ...
MAJ. SAID HAMMED

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shall...
SAID ELIAS DAWLABANI

Jika ingin menjadi seorang penulis pertama sekali kena membaca, kedua kena membaca, ketiga, membaca,...
A. SAMAD SAID

Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce a...
EDWARD W. SAID

Leaders in business and government, who fail to see the holistic interdependence of our planet, are ...
SAID ELIAS DAWLABANI

Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle o...
EDWARD W. SAID

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its miss...
EDWARD W. SAID

His [Chancellor Michael Harris IUK] "a viking with a heart of a mother" (originally said about Shack...
GREGORY STEEL (ORIGINALY SAID ABOUT SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON)

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