Mutakallim Quotes & Sayings

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew. — Lauren Groff

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. — Ian Somerhalder

Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty, Beauty, Sublimeness, Grandeur, and Holiness ... He to whom the mysteries of La ilaha illa'llah are revealed draws near to God, and his worship of God becomes sincere. He does not turn to anyone but to Him, nor does he have hope in or fear other than Him, nor does he see harm or benefit except as coming from Him. He abandons whosoever is not He and rids himself of inward and outward associationism (shirk). — Ibn Ata Allah

In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything. — Marcel Proust

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by. — Rodger Kamenetz

I'm discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do so the worker wakes up at 8am but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen. — Eric Thomas

Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but still they go on thinking in terms of having. Their heaven is nothing but their projected desire of having everything. All that they have missed here they would like to have in the after-life. But it is the same desire. — Rajneesh

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. — William Osler

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there. — John Banville

I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again. — James Taylor

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant. — Robert Lopez

I tried to look earnest, but I only succeeded in looking pathetic. — Henry Miller

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be. — Michael Owen

Most of the passenger cars are lined with thick patterned carpets, upholstered in velvets in burgundies and violets and creams, as though they have been dipped in a sunset, hovering at twilight and holding on to the colors before they fade to midnight and stars. — Erin Morgenstern

It felt good to be the one holding the blade; the role reversal gave him a much desired feeling of control. — S.R. Ford