Omar Khayyam Quotes

The Vine had struck a fibre: which about If clings my being - let the Dervish flout; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key, That shall unlock the Door he howls without.

Omar Khayyam

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• Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Model
  • Yourself
  • Red

• I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Now
  • Now And Then
  • Bath

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Work
  • Museums
  • Walls

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • People
  • Up
  • Perfect

• I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Hurt

• After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Me
  • Person
  • First

• The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Find

• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • End
  • Back
  • Bus

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Great
  • Internet
  • I Think

• Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

  

  Martha Beck
  • May
  • Fear

• Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Future
  • Opinion

• The Vine had struck a fibre: which about If clings my being - let the Dervish flout; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key, That shall unlock the Door he howls without.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • May
  • Door