Rumi Quotes

Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation? A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

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• As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Fire

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Home
  • Weird

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Role

• I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

  

  Major Owens
  • Long
  • Business
  • Pressure

• Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Work
  • Art
  • Man

• But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Different
  • High

• And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • You
  • Dare

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Way
  • Media
  • Cringe

• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Big

• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• All I want to do is change the world.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • World
  • Want
  • Change

• My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dad

• Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Long
  • Art
  • Through

• Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Movie
  • Alone
  • Opinion

• I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Genuine
  • Wins
  • Not Afraid

• No one should brave the underworld alone.

  

  Anne Decatur Danielewski
  • Alone
  • Brave
  • Underworld

• I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • People

• Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation? A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

  

  Rumi
  • Alone
  • Prove
  • Anything