Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
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The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.
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Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?
