Nizar Qabbani Quotes

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

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• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Job
  • Acting

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Power
  • Lived

• I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Me
  • Ask
  • Remain

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Money
  • Why

• I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • She
  • Remember
  • Want

• When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Learning
  • Dance

• She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Heaven
  • Goddess

• The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.

  

  Elie Wiesel

• I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Why

• London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • World
  • Great
  • Friend

• If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.

  

  Max von Essen
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Risk

• I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn't invent pink slime, but pink slime exists: It's a non-fictional entity. Like, that stuff grosses me out so much, I couldn't make it up.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Up
  • Food
  • Pink

• I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Work
  • Great
  • Why

• I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.

  

  Leo Varadkar

• Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh.

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Song
  • Car
  • Embarrassing

• Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.

  

  Andrew Hoberek
  • Poetry
  • Rap
  • Rhyme

• I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

  

  George Foreman
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Proud

• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Rediscover

• If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

  

  Mark Neumann
  • God

• A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

  

  Nizar Qabbani
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Body