I have read Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyat' in translation and marvelled at the emotions and its universal appeal and dreamt of authoring such… — Tanikella Bharani Copy Share Image
I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
“Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“My uncle read me Omar Khayyam. In Arabic. Not Turkish or even English. I tried so hard to understand it. I would… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. A personal God is a disappointing God; and Job, Omar Khayyam, Euripides,… — Palinurus Copy Share Image
“Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“I am the sun I am the sea I am the one By infinity I am the spark I am the light… — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
“Medieval Persia also produced a long and beautiful poem satirizing the claims and practices of religion. Though Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) is best… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
