Behdad Sami Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
-
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
-
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
-
I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
-
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
-
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
-
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
-
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
-
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
-
I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
-
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
-
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
-
The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
-
And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.
-
And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
-
The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
-
'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
-
Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'
-
I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.
-
You are of all my friends the one who illustrates pragmatism in its most needful forms. You are a jewel of pragmatism.
-
For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
-
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
-
You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
-
Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.
