Hafez Quotes

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Think
  • Team
  • Win

• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Soul
  • Snow
  • Victim

• We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Year
  • Loyalty
  • Oath

• I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Day

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Education
  • Support
  • Language

• I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Think
  • Child

• In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Different
  • Single
  • Vision

• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Reality
  • Role
  • Trade

• Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Music
  • Listening

• There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Different
  • Feminist

• The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

  

  Al Swearengen
  • World
  • Dead
  • Give

• Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

  

  Hafez
  • Words
  • Desire
  • Language