Among the earliest zāhids was al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 728), whose sayings remained for a long time the chief guide of the ascetics.
Peter Quennell recalled that Lady Glenconner would greet visitors arranged in an 18th-century tableaux – a sense of fantasy inculcated in her son, Stephen Tennant, whose sayings as a child she published, and who would live out a decorative reclusion at Wilsford surrounded by tropical lizards, polar bear skins and the rainbow glitter of his imagination.
"So I sometimes can hear some of the words he is saying". Kelli Frankman, whose two daughters, Abbie, 7, and Katie, 6, are enrolled in Gift of Language, looked on.
In Kannada the same movement was exemplified by Basava, whose vachanas ("sayings" or "talks") achieved great popularity.
His concerned mother, Dierdre Wolownick (one of whose favorite sayings, Mr. Honnold recalls, was "Almost doesn't count"), wonders if he has Asperger's syndrome, but the man himself is unfazed by speculation.
That seriousness is a legacy of Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Wallace, whose names and sayings are still invoked routinely by staff members.
He has translated seven books of the post-modernist French thinker Gilles Deleuze, one of whose more enigmatic sayings states: "A concept is a brick.
The west owes its ideas of evil to Christianity, though whether these ideas would be recognised by Jesus – the dissident Jewish prophet from whose life and sayings St Paul conjured the Christian religion – is an open question.
Robb's prime aim in his remarkable "M" -- part biography, part costume drama, part art-history manual -- is to recreate the world of an artist whose few recorded sayings insist that he was not prepared to paint anything but what he saw.
According to Vianu's assessment Creangă was "a supreme artist" whose use of "typical sayings" attests "a man of the people, but not an anonymous and impersonal sample".
