Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.Naomi Shihab Nye
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
Vash Young -
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
Irwin Shaw -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
Van Morrison
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
Damien Hirst -
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides -
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney -
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
Zachary Levi -
Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
Patricia Norris -
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
Taylor Negron
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
Haley Bennett -
I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
Jack Ma -
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
Jack Bruce Cream -
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David -
The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.
Ed Catmull
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There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.
Chelsea Handler -
Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.
Kalan Sherrard -
It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.
Ariel Pink -
The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country.
Alain Ducasse -
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
Naomi Shihab Nye