Gabriel Zaid Quotes

#1. I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

John Mellencamp

#2. The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.

Lowkey

#3. Quantity impresses, and anyone can appreciate it at first sight. Quality isn't as obvious, or as easy to appreciate. As if that weren't enough, quantity is easier to produce, less labor-intensive, cheaper, less risky than saying: Not this.

Gabriel Zaid

#4. ...playing these physical and imaginative group games instantly creates community connection.

Hannah Fox

#5. The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

Gabriel Zaid

#6. We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Tom Stoppard

#7. Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we've chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

Gabriel Zaid

#8. The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

Gabriel Zaid

#9. Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Preserving everything is a form of negligence that causes a new kind of damage: the loss of what matters in a glut of the insignificant. To preserve everything is to lose everything.

Gabriel Zaid

#11. Ranger was slouched on the couch, watching a ball game. Bob was beside him, his big shaggy orange Bob head resting on Ranger's leg.

Janet Evanovich

#12. Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

Gabriel Zaid

#13. What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

Gabriel Zaid

#14. If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

Billy Joel

#15. It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Ben E. King

#16. If it's not a dead body ... does this have to do with the cape?" asked Oscar.
"Oscar, I thought we agreed we weren't going to mention that to people," I reminded him.
"Sailor's not people."
"Sailor's curious," Sailor said. "What cape?

Juliet Blackwell

#17. As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

Gabriel Zaid

#18. I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick.

Lita Ford

#19. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.

Rick Warren

#20. The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

Socrates

#21. It was like Cheers. But where absolutely no one knew your name.

Felicia Day

#22. When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

Joe Carnahan