Gilad Atzmon Quotes

#1. I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

Stendhal

#2. Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.

Gilad Atzmon

#3. Tell me, Mrs. Moon, will your need for sustenance trouble you on this excursion? How often do you need to feed? I couldn't tell whether his interest was scientific, or whether he was afraid I might plunge my teeth into his throat at any moment.

J.R. Rain

#4. I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up.

Woody Harrelson

#5. If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes ... it cuts its own throat.

C.S. Lewis

#6. I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.

David Alan Basche

#7. After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy lines, I started to fantasise about living in New York, London or Paris.

Gilad Atzmon

#8. I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

Gilad Atzmon

#9. An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.

Gilad Atzmon

#10. Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

Robert M. Gates

#11. The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Haruki Murakami

#12. His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.

Thomm Quackenbush

#13. I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

#14. Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.

Gilad Atzmon

#15. Oh. Too bad. Well, all's quiet so far. There was a heckuva lot goin' on last night, though. Think it might be one o' them poultry heists."
"Poultry heist? Someone's stealing chickens?" I asked.
Maya nudged me. "He means poltergeists.

Juliet Blackwell

#16. Would a man nourished by beauty look like this? You have nothing but desolation and desperation here, you say? I bring you more of the same!

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

J.I. Packer