Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?
Quotes to Explore
-
I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
-
When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
-
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
-
Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
-
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
-
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
-
No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
-
My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
-
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
-
I'm a political conservative.
-
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
-
There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
-
I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
-
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
-
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
-
With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
-
I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry's Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD's of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let's be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!
-
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
-
I haven't lost my blues roots.
-
These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light-the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.
-
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
-
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?
