Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Mahmoud Darwish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: palestinian
  • Birth: March 13, 1941 - August 9, 2008

Topics

PoetryPoetFinallyMeasuredHeHow

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

Jewel

LoveCookingYourselfEndYouFail

Believe it or not, every Marvel character is someone's favorite character. There's a fan out there who absolutely believes that their character should have their own television show.

Jeph Loeb

CharacterBelieveSomeoneTelevision

My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.

Andrew Sean Greer

FashionGrandmotherOutEvenBeehive

I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.

Robert Sean Leonard

BestWinWorldAwardSundayPlay

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

John Sununu

MotherMeBadBoyOutWould

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Steven Wright

YouShootShouldUse

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Robert Crumb

LoveGoodExerciseYouTryIdea

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

Michel Onfray

FreedomI AmStandViewPolitical

In a triathlon, it's all about cycling in the most efficient manner. You need to save your energy for the run at the end, so you want to ride really efficiently and not waste your energy. The only way to do that is to spend a really long time on the bike.

Jonathan Brownlee

TimeRideBikeEnergyEndYou

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Douglas Coupland

HopeMoneyWritingEndSomeoneWant

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

Donatella Versace

ChangePeopleSometimesAfraidBig

What did everyone think robot vacuuming was going to be? Well, they think Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons,' a human robot that pushed a vacuum. That was never going to happen.

Colin Angle

ThinkNeverRobotHumanEveryone

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