Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'
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After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
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Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.
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I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
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If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
