Bijan quotes

“The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.”
-- Bijan

Source : "Fashion Legend Bijan Pakzad Dies" by Annie Yuan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2011.

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“Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.”
-- Bijan

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“Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.”
-- Bijan

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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”

“There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.”

“We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Al Jazeera English"/"101 East- Inside Indonesia's Islamic schools", www.youtube.com. August 31, 2007.

“I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.113, Macmillan

“The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.”

Source : "Fashion Legend Bijan Pakzad Dies" by Annie Yuan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2011.

“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”

Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books