Gabriel Zaid Quotes

#1. Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

Gabriel Zaid

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

Joe Carnahan

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

Felicia Day

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

Socrates

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

Rick Warren

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

Lita Ford

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Ben E. King

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

Billy Joel

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

J.K. Rowling

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

Gabriel Zaid

#17. 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

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

Tom Stoppard

#19. 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

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

Hannah Fox

#21. 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

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

Lowkey