Rumi Quotes
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
-
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
-
It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
-
A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
-
If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
-
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
-
Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
-
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
-
There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
-
What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!
-
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
-
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
-
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
-
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
-
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
-
A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
-
Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
-
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
-
Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
-
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
-
Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
-
For me, I always try to make it to the final.
-
If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
-
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
