The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. … I hadn’t been to the mosque in like 10 years.
AASIF MANDVIThe hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
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Language is the only homeland.
CZESLAW MILOSZ -
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV -
All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN -
I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
ADRIENNE RICH -
The sun has one lesson for us: learn to see the light on a rainy day.
IESTYN TUDOR -
Not everything that bothers us is a problem, not everything that comforts us is the solution.
ANAMIKA GARG -
Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA -
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
ICE CUBE -
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'ROURKE -
When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROST -
I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn’t instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.
TREY SONGZ -
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
ALBERT CAMUS -
Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control.
BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM -
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSE -
Please don’t fall over, please don’t fall over, please don’t fall over!’
AGYNESS DEYN