Rumi Quotes

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Said

• It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Look

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Fun

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Security

• I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Love
  • Joy

• But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • American
  • Party

• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Science
  • Sea

• 'What civilization would be complete without a cat?' the Professor went on. 'What greater blessing to the home than the kindly yet watchful eye of this tiger of the fireside?'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Home
  • Cat
  • Tiger

• Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

  

  Mason Cooley

• 'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Movie

• I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous climate fluctuations.

  

  David Grinspoon

• My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Life
  • Home
  • Gymnastics

• The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Cold
  • Moon
  • Strange

• I count no more my wasted tears; They left no echo of their fall; I mourn no more my lonesome years; This blessed hour atones for all. I fear not all that Time or Fate May bring to burden heart or brow,- Strong in the love that came so late, Our souls shall keep it always now!

  

  Elizabeth Chase Allen
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Tears

• Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Why

• Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.

  

  Rumi
  • Destiny
  • Souls
  • Shape