Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Wood

• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Practice
  • Road
  • Boy

• It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Work
  • Road

• I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Alive
  • Obstacles
  • Overcome

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  

  Mal Peet
  • History
  • Road
  • Burger

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Friends
  • Road

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Road
  • Through
  • Sacred

• I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Rest

• Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.

  

  Vijay
  • Man
  • Common
  • Planned

• It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Road
  • Picture
  • Down

• The poster first of all justified its existence on the grounds of utility, and should it further aspire to beauty of line and colour, may not our hoardings claim kinship with the galleries, and the designers of affiches pose proudly in the public eye as the masters of Holland Road or Bond Street Barbizon (and, recollect, no gate money, no catalogue)?

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Money
  • May
  • Road

• The DVR thing has rocked my world. Being on the road, I used to not keep up with any shows. Now I got a DVR, so I'm watching everything: 'CSI: Miami,' my favorites 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Mentalist.' I like some of the HBO stuff, 'Entourage' and 'Eastbound & Down.' My wife got me into the 'Grey's Anatomy' deal, so I'm watching that.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • World
  • Wife

• Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Freedom
  • Present
  • Common

• We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Poetry
  • Ability
  • Modern

• I've been doing Nixon pretty much my whole professional life. I was in this comedy group called the Credibility Gap in Los Angeles when he was president. I was doing Nixon on the radio, and when we did live shows I physicalized him - if that's a word - for the first time. And then I did a Nixon sketch on a very short-lived NBC show called Sunday Best.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Nixon
  • Professional Life
  • Comedy group

• Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Road
  • Common
  • Alive