Idries Shah Quotes
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
Quotes to Explore
-
I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
-
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
-
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
-
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
-
I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
-
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
-
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
-
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
-
If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!
-
If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
-
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
-
The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
-
I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
-
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
-
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
-
'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
-
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
-
The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
-
In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
-
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
-
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
-
Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.
-
My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.
-
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
