Author: Timothy Mo

Cites

• Muhammad The Prophet (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
    FROM: Hadith, (None), NULL, Saudi Arabia
• Saul Bellow (2)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The ancestral Jewish terms for it were, first, Tum-tum, dating perhaps from the Babylonian captivity. Sometimes the word was andreygenes, obviously of Alexandrian, Hellanistic origin -- the two sexes merged in one erotic and perverse darkness. Mixtures of archaism and modernity were especially appealing to Ravelstein, who could not be contained in modernity and overflowed all the ages.
    FROM: Ravelstein, (2000), Novel, US/Canada
• Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No one believes unless they have first doubted.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Baghdad
• Barack Obama (2)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man like me.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Isaac Watts (2)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Time like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away They fly forgotten as a dream Dies at the opening day.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Unknown (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Borges also employed two very unusual literary forms: the literary forgery and the review of an imaginary work.
    FROM: Wikipedia, (None), Book, NULL
• Al-Junayd (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am He Whom I love and He Whom I love is I.
    FROM: Unknown, (None), Saying, Iraq
• Matthew Arnold (2)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Girl! nimble with thy feet, not with thy hands! Curled minion, dancer, coiner of sweet words! Fight; let me hear thy hateful voice no more!
    FROM: Sohrab and Rustum, (1853), Poem, UK
• Ninoy Aquino (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Filipino is worth dying for.
    FROM: 500 peso note Republic of the Philippines, (None), Other?, Philippines
• Wen Jiabao (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are destroying the real and building up the fake,
    FROM: NULL, (2011), NULL, China
• Popeye (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I Yam what I Yam and I Duz what I Duz,
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• C. Julius Solinus (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In these my pages I shall describe things as I saw them, things as I heard them, so that my book will be an accurate record, free from fabrication. You who read my lines may do so in trusting confidence, because in them is naught but verity.
    FROM: De Mirabilibus Mundi, (None), Book, Italy
• Robert Gates (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In my 25 years experience, governments lie to each other. That's how business is done.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• T. E. Lawrence (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Many men would take the death sentence without a whimper to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
    FROM: The Mint, (1955), Book, UK
• Blaise Pascal (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pesons le gain et la perte en prenant le parti de croire que Dieu est. Si vous gagnez, vous gagnez tout ; si vous perdez, vous ne perdez rien. Pariez donc qu'il est sans hésiter. Oui il faut gager.
    FROM: Pensée #318, (1670), Book, France
• John Sawers (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Secrecy is not a dirty word.
    FROM: NULL, (2010), Speech, UK
• J,M,M, Trelawney (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Notwithstanding the modern emphasis on sport techniques, whose proper province is the competitive mat, the age-old street deciders of the kick to the groin, the eye-gouge, and the head butt, remain the staples of any system of self-defence worth of the name. WIth these techniques the weak may realistically hope to overcome the strong. In general, most systems of unarmed combat actually follow the principles of an asymmetrical military strategy: as in guerilla warfare, the weak, the elderly, the diminutive, or the outnumbered may select a target and, through applying all their force to a sequestered part of the opponents anatomy, by instrumentality of the heel hook, the arm-bar, small-joint manipulation, or the triangle choke, actually prove themselves stronger than the foe - at that moment in time and at that point d'appui.
    FROM: On Restraint, (None), NULL, NULL
• Stephen Hawking (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We should seek the greatest value for our action.
    FROM: NULL, (2011), Saying, UK
• William W. How (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The golden evening brightens in the west; Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest; Sweet is the calm of paradise the blessed: Alleluia! Alleluia!
    FROM: For All the Saints, Who from their Labour Rest, (1864), Song, UK
• Hadith (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali of Baghdad d. IIII, author of The Incoherence of the Philosophers, answered by Averroes in The Incoherence of The Incoherence (1)
  • IN: Pure (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No one believes unless they first doubted.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL