4k Islamic Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play. — Eddie Van Halen

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value. — Randall Wright

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything. — Giles Duley

The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the left and riding a right-pointing arrow into the future. Ruby didn't believe that. The future twisted uncertain, a shapeless dream, but the past - the past was set. It cast evidence behind it, photos and letters and bones, piling up in hidden places, waiting for the chance to spill out. An avalanche. A burial. The past consumed the future, always. — Brandy Heineman

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved. — C.Rajagopalachari

It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one. — Arthur Dove

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man. — Sophocles

My words, my writing, my actions - these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles and hundreds of lifetimes. We may have no Mount Vesuvius looming over us. It may not be lava and ashes we fear. But we look at these forms, and we know what they felt. — Paul Fleischman