Omar Khayyam Quotes

What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!

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• I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is really light.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Light
  • Care
  • Makeup

• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Create
  • I Can

• We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Never
  • Left
  • Until

• People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Go
  • Extraordinary

• Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Red
  • Look

• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Political
  • Religious
  • See

• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Performances

• I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • First
  • Wanted
  • Just

• Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Kind
  • Argument
  • Divine

• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Absurd
  • Charming

• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Committed

• I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Right
  • Perfectionist

• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu

• There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Small

• I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.

  

  James Carville
  • Long
  • Why
  • College

• Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Good
  • Water
  • Wine

• What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Wine