Rumi Quotes
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
-
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
-
Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
-
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
-
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
-
In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
-
Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
-
Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
-
I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
-
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
-
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
-
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
-
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
-
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
-
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
-
Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
-
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
-
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
-
When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
-
Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
-
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
-
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
