Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's…

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

Iraq, for the first time, gives al Qaeda and its allies contiguous safe-haven territory to train and launch attacks into the Levant. First into…

— Michael Scheuer

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you…

— Janet Fitch

The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search…

— Terence McKenna

...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that…

— Toby Lester

Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),…

— Matthew Simmons

The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative…

— Marina Warner

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how…

— Annie Besant

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it…

— Christopher Hitchens

Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda…

— Charles Krauthammer

On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be…

— Pat Condell

An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while…

— James Keller