Dervish Quotes

#1. Sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

William R. Parrish

#2. And were you able to find Him?" I inquired.
A shadow crossed his face as the dervish noded and said.
"Indeed, He was with me all along.

Elif Shafak

#3. Every atom in your body spins and dances
like a bee around the queen,
like a whirling dervish,
like the stars spiraling in a galaxy.
Yet why do you sit motionlessly watching Dancing With the Stars?

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#4. I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.

Padma Lakshmi

#5. The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish. This is very like embroidering a cloth, as you have to know where you are with the knots.

Marina Warner

#6. By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.

Karl Pilkington

#7. We laugh. Bec stares at us uncertainly, then joins in. She sounds a bit like Bill-E when she laughs, and for a few happy moments it's as if me, my brother and uncle are together again, relaxing in Dervish's study, sharing a joke, not a care in the world.

Darren Shan

#8. A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

Bruce Chatwin

#9. Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance with a simple child-like faith in the system that, not coincidentally, has made him a millionaire.

Earl Lee

#10. I also don't exercise. I can't imagine exercising for two hours. Not my style.

Selena

#11. Where's the fire, Lucy Dervish?'
In me. Under my skin.

Cath Crowley

#12. I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

Jimmy Carl Black

#13. When asked his name, he introduced himself as Shams of Tabriz and said he was a wandering dervish searching for God high and low.

Elif Shafak

#14. My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

Kevin DeYoung

#15. Dervish and a girl with limp blond hair were playing a lethargic

Khaled Hosseini

#16. Your dervish trade is strange. You sell words, which people buy out of fear or habit. He doesn't want to, or doesn't know how to sell words. He can't even sell silence. Or talent. And he doesn't care about success.

Mesa Selimovic

#17. Saying grace before a meal. Watching our breath. Repeating the ninety-nine names of Allah. Whirling like a dervish. Prayer. They all have one objective: to get us to pause just long enough to realize that life, your life, is a freaking miracle. The least you can do is pay attention.

Eric Weiner

#18. Busy days galore ... thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.

Al Cash

#19. ... the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community
was to open the heart,
explore the mystery of union,
to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,
and to celebrate the glory and difficulty
in being in human incarnation.

Coleman Barks

#20. Men are easily dealt with
but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

Mark Twain

#21. Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

Stephen Kinzer

#22. Our two hearts,
they have bloomed in the garden -
there
where our souls;
in red roses originate.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#23. You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks.
"Yes" I answer hollowly.
"You ass.

Darren Shan

#24. Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

Idries Shah

#25. In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue.

Karen Jones Gowen

#26. I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

Anne Michaels

#27. This group came on stage, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and this whirling dervish, this electrifying white soul singer was so riveting. And I'm seeing this and I said, 'My God, this is a musical revolution.'

Clive Davis

#28. I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

Laurie Lee

#29. The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

George Sand

#30. Hitler is a dancing dervish. He must be shot down.

Henning Von Tresckow

#31. Let's not muddy the brook ; Perhaps a pigeon is drinking water at a distance, Or a pitcher is being filled in a village, Or a dervish may be dipping dry bread in the brook.
The folk upstream understand the water.
They did not muddy the brook. We also must not muddy the brook...

Sohrab Sepehri

#32. The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

Norm MacDonald

#33. Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it. If you were to recite even a single page in the open air, birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop dead.

Clive James

#34. Sister Amelia spun, a whirling dervish in the service of the All-Mother, removing unnatural creatures from the lake.

Milton J. Davis

#35. She can throw a whirling dervish out of whirl.

Rodgers And Hammerstein

#36. A man said to a Dervish: "Why do I not see you more often?" The Dervish replied, "Because the words 'Why have you not been to see me?' are sweeter to my ear than the words 'Why have you come again?

Robert Greene

#37. Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.

William J. Clinton

#38. I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

Scott Weiland