"The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own."

-- Tahir Shah

#Believe Quotes #Islam Quotes #Followers Quotes

“It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?”
“It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.”
“But â€˜artâ€™ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murgerâ€™s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.”
“Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.”
“Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.”
“But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.”
“Don't let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they're talking about, don't let them tell you it can't be done because often they will tell you it can't be done, and it's just because they don't have the courage to try.”

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