I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten…

“What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked. ‘Malaria.’ Oscar said. ‘Oh, great.’ ‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored the cat.”

— Sara Pascoe

I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence…

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

— Juan Cole

“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and…

— Johann Joachim Becher

We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by various means…

— Saddam Hussein

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant…

— Zack Snyder

Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer…

— Andrew Bacevich

You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything.…

— Ally Carter

“The two of us with our scrappy motor and no idea what was going to happen next, a Persian version of the Blues Brothers…

— Lois Pryce

Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access…

— Al Gore

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

— Zubin Mehta

“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers of heart…

— Abhijit Naskar

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

— Firoozeh Dumas

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a…

— Shimon Peres

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special…

— Lafcadio Hearn