Quotes About Ishtar

#1. It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him ...

Richard Hofstadter

#2. We're never gonna be perfect, baby,
but we'll always be like this.
Whatever this is between us,
it's always going to be here.
I promise you.

Carian Cole

#3. Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

Janine Di Giovanni

#4. Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'

Estelle Getty

#5. We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?

Bud Wilkinson

#6. Father's life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl.

Yasunari Kawabata

#7. Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

Lewis Carroll

#8. The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

Hannah Arendt

#9. You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

David Attenborough

#10. Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?

Ray McGovern

#11. She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far ... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

James Frey

#13. Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.

Richard Corliss

#14. In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Vincent Van Gogh

#15. ...the Iraq war was the Ishtar of wars.

Meg Wolitzer

#16. The more you care, the stronger you can be.

Jim Rohn

#17. No one who is angry or shallow can repeat what they've said. The moment you ask a person to repeat, you have won the battle. You have put them on guard. So don't reply angrily and don't take any offense, just say politely, "Yes, I understand, but could you please repeat it?" With that, you have won.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#18. It gets easier when you've met and dealt with your own grief. It gets easier, but it'll probably never be easy.

Scot Gardner