Attia Hosain quotes

Attia Hosain quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.”
-- Attia Hosain

#Eye Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.”
“Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.”
“That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.”
“As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss....”
“â€¦kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.”
“The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it's putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.”
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”
“I had a happy childhood.”
“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

Source : Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.69, Penguin
“Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”

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