Al-Mutanabbi Quotes

Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth and worried age, Its futile course to futile death will flow.

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• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Care

• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Confused

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Me
  • Conscious

• Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • She
  • Man

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Honor
  • Find
  • Belief

• I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Idea
  • Point

• Being a single woman is like going off to war.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • War
  • Single
  • Woman

• We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Understanding
  • Unknown
  • Random

• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Poetry

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Questions
  • Spirits

• I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Guy
  • House
  • Light

• Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

  

  Harold Lloyd Jenkins
  • Death
  • Kiss

• We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

  

  John Hurt
  • Great
  • God
  • Death

• Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth and worried age, Its futile course to futile death will flow.

  

  Al-Mutanabbi
  • Death
  • Light
  • Darkness