Omar Khayyam Quotes

Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot - I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot - 'All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?'

Omar Khayyam

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• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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• Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
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• I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Lying
  • Run
  • Office

• I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Age
  • Day
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• I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Matter

• My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

  

  Yael Stone
  • History
  • Theatre
  • Australia

• I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Like
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  • Fan

• I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Life
  • Me
  • Attention

• A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Painting
  • Find
  • Tough

• We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Need

• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
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• Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way,And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say.Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend:You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Time
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  • Smile

• He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state. I said, 'Don't talk rot, old Tom Travers.' 'I am not accustomed to talk rot,' he said. 'Then, for a beginner,' I said, 'you do it dashed well.' And I think you will admit, boys and ladies and gentlemen, that that was telling him.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • World
  • Opinion

• There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

  

  Cole Porter

• I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

  

  Geneva Carr
  • Up

• I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Government
  • Down

• In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Pink

• I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Hal: God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes.

  

  Joe Orton
  • God
  • Gentleman

• Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot - I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot - 'All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?'

  

  Omar Khayyam