Oud Instrument Quotes & Sayings

For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool. — Anders Petersen

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom. — James T. Shotwell

My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you put the things you don't have anywhere else to put, and I knew that the mind and body are connected, and that my bodily sensations were just messages from my mind, but I just wished there was a box or a drawer or a hole in the ground where I could put all this, all this mind and body stuff that I didn't know what else to do with. — Catherine Lacey

You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention. — Shirley Bassey

You make people think of you for a living. You remind them you exist. — C.D. Reiss

When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you do something and you get praised for it, you think, "Oh, right, well I'll do that." From then on, I always thought I'd be a writer. I thought novels at first, and then I sort of naturally drifted into TV. — Steven Knight

You might not realize it now, kid, but everyone is some shade of fucked-up. — Riley Hart

'SNL' was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I don't have any regrets. — Michaela Watkins

A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.' — Richard Dawkins

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly — Natalie Portman

In fact, what's been happening is that there's been a flow of investor funds to the United States, to Treasury securities, which are regarded as a safe haven now, which has a mixed effect for the United States.3 It tends over time to raise the value of the dollar and harm exports. So it's not good for a healthy economy. — Noam Chomsky

Love the Creator with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. — Lou Rawls