Top 60 Sharif Quotes
#1. Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
Peter O'Toole
#2. In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
Viggo Mortensen
#3. I had been born into a sort of democracy in which for ten years Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif kept replacing each other, none of their governments ever completing a term and always accusing each other of corruption.
Malala Yousafzai
#4. Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.
Bruce Riedel
#5. I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.
Mona Simpson
#6. People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#7. Success is living your essence." ~ Sharif Khan
Sharif Khan
#8. 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
#9. To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent.
David Lagercrantz
#10. Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.
Sharif Khan
#11. I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.
Omar Sharif
#12. The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
Omar Sharif
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal Al-Sharif
#16. This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
Omar Sharif
#17. 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
#18. Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.
Manal Al-Sharif
#19. They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.
Omar Sharif
#21. For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.
Omar Sharif
#22. I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
Omar Sharif
#23. Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.
Sharif Abdullah
#24. 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
#25. By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal: an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works for all humans and for all nonhumans. By accepting responsibility, we move closer to creating a world that works for all.
Sharif Abdullah
#26. 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
#27. Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?
Manal Al-Sharif
#28. The ear is superior to the eye, as it does not stop functioning with sleep. Since
Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal
#29. 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
#30. They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
Omar Sharif
#31. We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September,
Sharif El-Gamal
#32. Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion
and purification.
Omar Sharif
#33. Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
Medeia Sharif
#34. 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
#35. We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.
Sharif Abdullah
#36. I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
Omar Sharif
#37. Met you as a stranger
Took you as a friend
Hope we meet in Heaven
Where friendship never ends
Raheel Sharif
#38. Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
Omar Sharif
#39. I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
Omar Sharif
#40. It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
Manal Al-Sharif
#41. I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
#42. 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
#43. When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
Manal Al-Sharif
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.
Omar Sharif
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.
Omar Sharif
#50. We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
Manal Al-Sharif
#52. I've always been extremely lucky in my life.
Omar Sharif
#54. I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
Omar Sharif
#55. My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
Omar Sharif
#56. There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
Omar Sharif
#57. I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
Omar Sharif
#58. 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
#59. People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.
Omar Sharif
#60. 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
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