Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes

Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi

• Society
• Imagination
• Deep
• Waiting
• Television

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Food

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • You
  • Crazy

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • She
  • Fashion

• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Character
  • Man
  • Run

• Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Same
  • Machines
  • Threads

• I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • City
  • My Life

• This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Moment
  • Internet

• I try to eat as near perfect as possible, but once in a while I eat for my taste buds. For example, I occasionally like to treat myself to a small cup of chocolate frozen yogurt - plus toppings.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • Small
  • Perfect
  • Chocolate

• Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Community

• We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialized socialist society.  We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive onlookers.  We must ourselves take part in the pursuit of scientific and technological research as a means of providing the basis for our socialist society, Socialism without science is void. …

  

  Kwame Nkrumah
  • Society
  • Science

• I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Day
  • Girlfriend

• Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Deep