Omar Khayyam Quotes
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.Omar Khayyam
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
Pam Ferris -
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
Kate Atkinson -
Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
Campbell Scott -
I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
Jack McBrayer
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
Barney Frank -
Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
D. L. Hughley -
As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
Gary Player -
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
Gary Zukav -
Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
Barbara Demick -
I want to make a name for myself.
Fatima Siad
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
Ian Williams Battles -
Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
Waris Dirie -
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
Manika
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
Sam Altman -
The world absolutely needs your voice.
Kerby Jean-Raymond -
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz -
To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.
John Locke Nazareth -
I haven't found anything that I've wanted to say that I couldn't do through either the Internet or the reality shows that I've done.
Zach Anner -
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam