Rumi Quotes

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

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• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Love
  • Heaven

• Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Up
  • Family
  • Parents

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• I really like clever men who challenge you.

  

  E. L. James
  • Men
  • Challenge
  • Clever

• I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Change
  • Thought

• I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Rest
  • Acting

• I am not a good cue card reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Reader
  • Card
  • Cue

• With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Cars

• Work is making a living out of being bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Living
  • Bored

• It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Business
  • Film
  • Search

• If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Suicide

• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Cold

• I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Be very nervous of the shaky hands.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Hands
  • Very
  • Nervous

• I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Important
  • Wish

• Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Book
  • Reading

• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Drama

• I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with as much humour and honesty as I can. All my books have been that way.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Attention
  • Honesty

• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  

  Rumi
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia