Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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Like many moms in this country, I work to provide my child the best life she can have. It's tough. It's hard to take care of a sick baby all night, wake up tired, and have to go to work when all I want to do is spend time holding her.
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I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.
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One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.
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Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.
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No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.
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The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens.
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There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
