Rumi Quotes

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

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• Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Real
  • Parents
  • Perspective

• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Up
  • Character
  • Night

• President Obama has contempt for real money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • Money
  • President

• I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Long
  • Real
  • Know

• I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Dream
  • Flying
  • Mars

• I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Broken
  • Connection

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Real
  • Golf

• My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Same

• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Dream

• Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Real
  • Focus
  • New

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Day

• I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Moments

• There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Dark

• With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Fake

• Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Today

• Labor has a universal position of opposition to the death penalty both at home and abroad... It is not possible in our view to be selective in the application of this policy.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Home
  • Death

• What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Powerful
  • Need
  • New

• Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

  

  John Cena
  • Job

• I don't know if I'd do an action movie because I don't know if I could keep a straight face; honestly, I just think it's so silly. Like, I love watching them but I can't imagine me doing one.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Silly

• This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

  

  Rumi
  • Real
  • Death
  • Dream