Avi's Quotes

#1. Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Avi

#2. There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

Avi

#3. I won't let anyone tell me what to think.

Avi

#4. No one can be all things, as we all know.

Avi Arad

#5. We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

Avi Lewis

#6. Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

Avi Lewis

#7. My good friends David and Avi sent me a text greeting from their gym in NYC at 8 a.m. this morning. Isn't that a fine how do you do!

Dean Haglund

#8. Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.

Avi Arad

#9. To love a man, you must know his sins.'"
"At the Edge of the World.

Avi

#10. We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously.

Avi Arad

#11. Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

Avi Arad

#12. Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

Avi Arad

#13. The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

Avi Arad

#14. Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

Avi

#15. The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people's vote as they vote.

Avi Rubin

#16. Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation of neighborhoods.

Avi Friedman

#17. Do you ever smile, boy?" he demanded. "If you can't laugh and smile, life is worthless. Do you hear me?" he yelled. "It's NOTHING!

Avi

#18. There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see.

Avi

#19. Remember, lad," said the newt, "If it's going to be tommorow, it might as well be today. And if it is today, it could have been yesterday. If it was yesterday, then you're over and done with it, and can write your own book. Think about that.

Avi

#20. It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

Avi

#21. When dark, it's bright, when brightest, it's gone. When gone for good, so will I be.
What am I?

Avi

#22. Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Avi

#23. If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.

Avi Lewis

#24. A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

Avi

#25. Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

Avi Lewis

#26. I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.

Avi Steinberg

#27. People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

Avi Rubin

#28. I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

Avi Rubin

#29. It's wonderful how much you can learn by just being quiet and listening. Sometimes you even learn the truth - or what seems to be the truth.

Avi

#30. When bright, it's dark, when darkest, it's gone. When gone for good, so are you.
What am I?

Avi

#31. Nothing is quieter or has more secrets, I thought, than a book that's closed.

Avi

#32. I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing ...
How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother's death, Father Quinel's murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.

Avi

#33. In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.

Avi Rubin

#34. She can be fierce, but for all of that she's actually kindness itself.

Avi

#35. I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows - she certainly doesn't - who called me Avi. It stuck. It's the only name I use now.

Avi

#36. I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

Avi Lewis

#37. It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.

Avi

#38. It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

Avi Rubin

#39. On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

Avi Arad

#40. When a young man talks to an old man, it is always a gift.

Avi

#41. The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

Avi Lewis

#42. No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

Avi Arad

#43. To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.

Avi

#44. With great care the two creatures edged to the very tip. From there they looked out at the cloudless sky.
"The end of the branch," said Avon, mostly to himself.
"The beginning of the sky," said Edward, mostly to HIMself.

Avi

#45. The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.

Avi

#46. Yet for quixotic reasons
namely, that I enjoyed writing obits
I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move.

Avi Steinberg

#47. It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

Avi Arad

#48. I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'
What's that?'
I ... trust you.'
Why?'
You'll never hurt me.'
Thank you.'
But ... '
But, what?'
I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.'
Why?'
'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.

Avi

#49. Let's agree then ... if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice.

Avi

#50. It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

Avi

#51. For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

Avi

#52. His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn - but by small graceful actions, repeated often and refined with time.

Avi Steinberg

#53. As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.

Avi Rubin

#54. After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, "I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul.

Michael Lewis

#55. I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.

Avi

#56. Pal, if you ever look up the word right in a dictionary, you'll find it's one of the oldest words in the English language. Even so, people have never stopped arguing about what it means. I suspect they always will.

Avi

#57. I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.

Avi Arad

#58. The problem with those honorable men," Avi says, "is that they expect everyone else to be honorable in the same way.

Neal Stephenson

#59. I JUST FINISHED READING WOLF RIDER SUCH A GOOD BOOK...YOU HAVE TO TO READ IT!!!!

Avi

#60. People are freer in America. But there are more tears.

Avi

#61. The important thing was that he was there, as much a part of the rock, the water, the beach, the house, as they had come to be part of him.

Avi

#62. At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Avi Arad

#63. If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.

Avi Lewis

#64. Know her? Of course I know her. Everyone knows Poppy. She's famous.

Avi

#65. Book is the best friend, have no demand, no complain

Avi Salmon

#66. A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do

Avi

#67. A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

Avi

#68. So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

Avi Lewis

#69. That time in Seattle - during the lawsuit - was a fucking nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive.

Neal Stephenson

#70. The cure for unhappiness ... It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.

Avi

#71. For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

Avi Arad

#72. Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.

Avi

#73. I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

Avi Lewis

#74. Something Zachariah told me filled my mind and excited my heart: "A Sailor," he said, "chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port ... but winds have a mind of their home.

Avi

#75. You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

Avi Arad

#76. All I can think is that when you torment a person ... the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.

Avi

#77. Pimps make the best librarians.

Avi Steinberg

#78. But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

Avi Arad

#79. Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.

Avi Steinberg

#80. God take care of him, because he's my past and my future

Simone Elkeles

#81. In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

Avi

#82. Would you believe it? Would you believe it. Okay, this is WLRB, all-talk radio. Take a short break, then come right back to talk about whatever you want. Man, but I'm telling you: what's happening to this country!

Avi

#83. Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

Avi Arad

#84. Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.

Avi

#85. The last time I looked," Avon pointed out, "the world isn't bigger than the universe, though I'm willing to admit I've never actually measured it.

Avi

#86. When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Avi Arad

#87. Not for nothing are they called deadlines. By the time you reach the final line, sir, you are indeed dead.

Avi

#88. The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts

Avi

#89. I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Avi

#90. A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

Avi

#91. The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

Avi Arad

#92. Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.

Avi Dichter

#93. My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

Avi

#94. A green summer leaf
Embraced by the frozen ice
Keeps memories warm

Avi

#95. To resist a challenge is to resist life itself -Mogwat Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself. Truth is often painful to speak but soothing to live.

Avi

#96. For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

Avi

#97. I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

Avi Rubin

#98. It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

Avi

#99. BEAR WAS DEAD. That sweet and kindly man, the wisest I had ever known, the one I considered friend, teacher, and even father, was gone. Would

Avi

#100. Nothing is taken care of forever.

Avi Arad