Rumi Quotes

I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.

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• I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Hard Work

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Seriously
  • Grunge

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Think
  • Perfect

• In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.

  

  Laura Wade
  • World
  • Long
  • War

• The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Soul
  • Noble
  • Scenery

• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Well
  • Southern

• Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • Should
  • Responsible

• In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Want
  • Focus
  • Three

• I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • World
  • Show

• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

• As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Good
  • Children
  • Bad

• Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Life
  • Think
  • My Life

• The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Reason
  • Doing

• I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • People
  • Live
  • Village

• Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

  

  Scott Stossel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Name

• We were always skating on thin ice, Shaking the wrong dice, Swimming against the tide, Playing on the wrong side, Yes you were the player, and you were so cool, I was the greenhorn, King of the fools, Painting the picture, to fit with the frame, Chan.

  

  Keith Reid Procol Harum
  • Player
  • King
  • Skating

• I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.

  

  Rumi
  • Kind
  • Decent
  • Came Back