Gelman Quotes

#1. I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

Regis Philbin

#2. ("It is a blessing to die in the natural order." - Sofia Gelman.)

Boris Fishman

#3. Faith doesn't have to be much. Not any bigger than a mustard seed ... That small. Only that much faith you'll need in me, God says, because I am so big. I am the Great I Am. So have faith in me.

Patricia Raybon

#4. Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. [..] Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good. Our nation is moving forwards, and it is in your interest to respect a victorious nation.

Khaled Mashal

#5. Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!

Raheel Farooq

#6. Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.

Rita Golden Gelman

#7. I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

Kiana Tom

#8. Even here, in the U.S., I walk my daughter's dog and I look for interesting people sitting at a picnic table and I walk over with my white hair and I ask, "Would you mind if I sat and rested here for a minute?" Nobody would refuse that.

Rita Gelman

#9. I was born doing reference work in sin, and born
confessing it. This is what poems are.

Anne Sexton

#10. Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe.

Rita Gelman

#11. Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

Rita Gelman

#12. There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

Rita Gelman

#13. I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

Brett Gelman

#14. Look here, do you know the whole North End once had a set of tunnels that kept certain people in touch with each other's houses, and the burying ground, and the sea?

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times ... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

Brett Gelman

#16. Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.

Rita Gelman

#17. Comedy is about flaws anyway ... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

Brett Gelman

#18. Whenever I travel with my young children, I'm always reminded of an important travel lesson: Never travel with my young children.

Jim Gaffigan

#19. I have never tried anything psychedelic, but I've always wanted to. Would I be wrapped up in colors, attacked by sounds, filled with insights about worlds I don't even know exist?

Rita Golden Gelman

#20. Matheus wondered if the antelope ever volunteered to be eaten by the lion.

Amy Fecteau

#21. This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.

Jerome A. Miller

#22. These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#23. If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.

Rita Gelman

#24. Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.

Brett Gelman

#25. Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

Brett Gelman

#26. Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.

Rita Gelman

#27. I move throughout the world...guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.

Rita Golden Gelman

#28. I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

Rita Gelman

#29. I don't want to be responsible anymore. I don't want to have plans. I just want to float through the world.

Rita Gelman

#30. When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.

Rita Gelman

#31. I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

Brett Gelman

#32. defenestration," which derives from "fenestra," the Latin word for "window," refers to the act of throwing something or someone out of the window. Knowing this, we can impress our friends with statements like, "Sally finished her apple and defenestrated the core.")

Doug Erlandson

#33. I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.

Annelyse Gelman

#34. I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

Brett Gelman

#35. I have buried my fears, abandoned self-consciousness, and allowed myself to slide into sensation. I like the person I have become.

Rita Golden Gelman

#36. I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

Brett Gelman

#37. There are times when the state department says not to travel to a place, but I'll look it up and find out for myself. For years, even Bali was off the list because they had been bombed. I totally ignored that.

Rita Gelman

#38. Use power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.

Frederick Lenz

#39. I came back once or twice a year to visit my family, and then I would take off again. In the beginning, I think everybody thought I would get over it and get it out of my system. And I never did.

Rita Gelman

#40. I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

Brett Gelman

#41. The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

Charlie Kaufman

#42. I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

Brett Gelman