Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.
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'Midnight Nation' is really interesting.
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I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.
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I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
