Masnavi Rumi Quotes & Sayings

Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue. — Bill Milkowski

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give — Ibn Ata Allah

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum. — Susan Sontag

You attain to knowledge by argument;
You attain a craft or skill by practice;
If voluntary poverty's your choice,
companionship's the way, not hand or tongue.
The knowledge of it passes soul to soul,
not by way of talk or reams of notes.
Its signs are writ upon the seeker's heart,
yet still the seeker cannot ken those signs
until his heart becomes exposed to light
Then God reveals His: Did We not expose? [Qur'an 94:1]
for We've exposed the chambers of your breast
and placed the exposition in your heart — Rumi

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing. — Jerome Hines

There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. — Jay Maisel

She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line. — Richard Russo

That's the key to happiness," Abbey declares. "Join the right circus. — Paul Acampora