Top 685 Quotes & Sayings by Iranian Authors - Page 9

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.

Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

Iran is not about building nuclear weapons. We don't wanna build nuclear weapons. We don't believe that nuclear weapons bring security to anybody, certainly not to us.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

I'm quite confident Sardar can make a move from Russia to a top level club.

There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

If it were up to me I'd rather sign up the best and most deserving players, since we have to make our fans happy.

For a given match, I can only select 18 players and at most 14 would play.

For the boxing, Muhammad Ali and the Michael Tyson both Iron Sheik class.

I have no problem saying that I have differences in policy with the United States.

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

When I see someone who don't respect the people, I break their back old-country way on the Twitter. I am the law of the Twitter.

Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

I lived for 30 years in the U.S., but always kept my Islamic and Iranian culture and customs... even now, western lifestyle feels strange to me.

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

I get very nervous about not being around the office.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

The people, when they say 'Death to America!' - do you know what they are really saying? What they mean to say relates to the aggressive policies of the U.S. and intervention and meddling by the U.S.

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.

We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on the company which we have all supported, and for which we continue to have the greatest expectations.

All big changes of the world come from words.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

I have a lot of respect for Ali Karimi and appreciate his football but we cannot get desired results with big names. It won't work.

The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

Iran did not talk to the United States for 35 years. And now we are talking. And I believe these talks are useful. But they haven't produced the intended results. We have not seen an end to the hostility that has been exhibited in the United States against Iran. And I believe it is important that we see some of that.

I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

That's what I do not believe - that dividing Iran into 'reasonable' and 'unreasonable' forces is either correct, conducive, or anybody's business. When the United States exercised that practice in the past, it didn't produce results.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

I've always been really internally focused. I tend to focus on hiring - ensuring that every person we hire is both a really good fit and really good - and also that everything we put out to our users is very high-quality.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.