Shamsi Quotes & Sayings

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. — Robert E.Lee

I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it. — John Darnielle

That moon, which the sky ne'er saw even in dreams, has returned
And brought a fire no water can quench.
See the body' s house, and see my. soul,
This made drunken and that desolate by the cup of his love.
When the host of the tavern became my heart-mate,
My blood turned to wine and my heart to kabab.
When the eye is filled with thought of him, a voice arrives :
W ell done, O flagon, and bravo, wine!
Love's fingers tear up, root and stem,
Every house where sunbeams fall from love.
When my heart saw love's sea, of a sudden
It left me and leaped in, crying, , Find me.'
The face of Shamsi Din, Tabriz's glory, is the sun
In whose track the cloud-like hearts are moving — Rumi

One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway. — Steven Wright

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. — Edward Tufte

And the roads beckoned us to wander... — Avijeet Das

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.
(Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz) — Idries Shah

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful. — Guy De Maupassant

I've been keeping journals since I was 13. — Keke Palmer

Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house. — Steven Gaines

Add in the denim-blue eyes and 6 foot 2 inch dominating physique, and I'm reduced to high-priced man candy for the next six weeks. — S.L. Jennings

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe! — Brad Goreski