Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
Pat Brown
I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.
W. H. Davies
But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
Olivier Martinez
Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.
P. G. Wodehouse
English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
Labrinth
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
Nadine Gordimer
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work.
Meg Wolitzer
Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
Oliver Gaspirtz
The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
