Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Fitzgerald
  • Modernist

• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Talent

• Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Voice
  • Going
  • Ice

• My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Great
  • America

• First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Fame

• Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

  

  Imelda May
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Age

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Big

• We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Parents
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Day
  • Run
  • Push

• Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Faith
  • Best

• I believe to my core that there’s only one right way to do this job, and that is with strict independence. By the book. Playing it straight. Faithful to the Constitution. Chris Wray VOWS' STRICT INDEPENDENCE' IN CONFIRMATION HEARING During Tuesday's vote before the full Senate Judiciary Committee, all five nay votes came from liberal Democrats : Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Jeff Merkley of Oregon.

  

  Christopher Wray
  • Job
  • Constitution
  • Independence

• I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Things

• The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Things
  • Understand

• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  • Hollywood
  • Vulnerability

• I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Things
  • Loved
  • Gaps