Idries Shah Quotes

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

Idries Shah

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• I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Fat

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Think
  • Man

• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Child

• The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Trying
  • Fame
  • Quit

• I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Real
  • Simple
  • Famous

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Better
  • Television

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • School
  • Family
  • Remember

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Camera

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Way
  • Feelings

• The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Sad

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• 'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Live
  • Family
  • Night

• I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, 'You know what? I'm just gonna be a hairy white chick 'cause this is too much!

  

  Marlon Wayans

• The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • May
  • Chicken
  • Turkey

• No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Change

• I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Question

• The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Wish
  • Transform
  • Chicken