Gyarvi Sharif Quotes

Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic. ~ Sharif Khan

I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now. ~ Sharif Abdel Kouddous

How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards. ~ Omar Sharif

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Pain will be his guru. ~ Sharif Khan

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater. ~ Omar Sharif

It matters what you call a thing. ~ Solmaz Sharif

I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way. ~ Omar Sharif

Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree. ~ Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Self-evident, Sharif Basha thinks, laying down his pen. So self-evident as to be hardly worth saying. But Anna does not think so. Anna, when she sees a wrong, she cannot rest until it has been put right. Besides, she wants to make him happy. Not just happy at home, but happy altogether. He knows she imagines a day when the shadow within which their life together has been lived will be lifted. And she still has confidence in public opinion; that if only people can be made to see, to understand - then wrongs can be undone, and history set on a different course. ~ Ahdaf Soueif

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really. ~ Omar Sharif

Winnie glowered at the young man. "Mr. Sharif, you don't understand the purpose of the stacks. You don't go into the stacks expecting the precise answer to your burning-question-of-the-moment. It doesn't work that way. In all the thousands of times that I've gone hunting in the stacks, I've seldom found exactly what I was looking for. You know what I did find? I found the books on close-by topics. I found answers to questions that I had never thought to ask. Those answers took me in new directions and were almost always more valuable than whatever I originally had in mind. ~ Verner Vinge

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable. ~ Omar Sharif

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. ~ Viggo Mortensen

Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work. ~ Sharif Abdullah

I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love ... I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her. ~ Omar Sharif

I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved! ~ Omar Sharif

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself. ~ Omar Sharif

Sharif gave instructions to his staff regarding snacks he wanted served to all of us - Sharif often asked for specific food items during meetings, as if it helped him concentrate his mind. ~ Husain Haqqani

It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides restaurants with partitions so that unrelated males and females cannot sit together; that same society expects you to get into a car with a man who is not your relative, with a man who is a complete stranger, by yourself and have him take you somewhere inside a locked car, alone. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has. ~ Omar Sharif

I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. ~ Sharif Abdel Kouddous

My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagues
on her coffee break, yet we don't judge a man if he doesn't grow his beard or if he works with women or speaks to them. Why do Saudi women allow subjugation to a man and adhere to men's rules and conditions? Why did I? ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Success is living your essence." ~ Sharif Khan ~ Sharif Khan

Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them. ~ Medeia Sharif

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing. ~ Omar Sharif

Michael Freeman was thirty-five years old – a former Special Forces soldier turned policeman. He was a tall and slim black man, with grey-flecked hair and dark almond-shaped eyes. His smile was tight-lipped – half knowing and half strategic. It hid a mouthful of craggy teeth. A childhood in Detroit's East Side with an aggressive, alcoholic father had taught him to play things close to his chest, to look and listen. His colleagues knew him as a patient thinker, sedulous, missing nothing given time. Intellectually savvy and emotionally guarded, he exuded certitude. In Afghanistan, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, he spent several weeks as a mounted outlier with the Northern Alliance in the Alma Tak Mountains, beyond the range of reinforcement or rescue – drinking filtered ditchwater and eating nuts scavenged from corpses – and calling down massive airstrikes on Taliban positions. He gained a certain reputation. Word spread the length of the Darya Suf River valley, through the Tiangi Gap to the stronghold at Mazar-i-Sharif that there was a monster loose in the mountains and the Taliban called him 'bor-buka', which seemed to mean black or devil or whirlwind, and, at times, all of these things. ~ Simon Conway

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. ~ Peter O'Toole

his eyes SENSITIVE when he passes advice to me, like I'm his SEQUEL, like we're all a SERIAL caught on Iranian satellite TV. When you tell someone of, he calls it SERVICING. When I stand on his feet, I call it SHADOWING. ~ Solmaz Sharif

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now. ~ Manal Al-Sharif