Sayed Quotes

#1. "eL Seed" was inspired by the French play Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. It was seeing "Le Cid" coming from the Arabic name "el sayed," which means "the master, the man." So I called myself like that because I was 16; I said, "Yes, I'm the man." That's how it started.

EL Seed

#2. Such is the irony of life on earth; that living in extreme simplicity free from indulgence turns this persecuted Middle Eastern fatherless carpenter, into the definition of vivacity, and one of the most recognized names in the world.

Sayed Mahdi Modarresi

#3. I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

Sayed Badreya

#4. It smelled like heaven, like love, like home and family and Sunday mornings at her grandparents' house. It smelled like...Bacon.

Tiffany Reisz

#5. It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.

Eileen Caddy

#6. New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

George Murray

#7. When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

Sayed Badreya

#8. I'm not sure that I recovered, but I also know that I cannot afford going back yet. I see how much the kids are happier, I guess, here and I think that they might have a better future not hiding.

Sayed Kashua

#9. Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois,

Sayed Kashua

#10. She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.

Somaly Mam

#11. Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

Wallace Stegner

#12. I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was so mad - are you crazy? You're not going to send that, or, you're not going to write that about me. So I would go, OK. You have five hours. Go ahead, write the column yourself.

Sayed Kashua

#13. Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Alfred De Vigny

#14. Akasha is a Sanskit word for "primary substance" which pertains the quality of light in a person's spiritual and physical senses.

Hema Malini

#15. Though leaves are many, the root is one.

William Butler Yeats

#16. Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

Dave Goldberg

#17. I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.

Sayed Kashua

#18. Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Aaron Eckhart

#19. I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

Sayed Kashua

#20. Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if he was able to shed his identity.

"Skin color is a little hard to shed," she said, "it's true. But the DNA of your social class is even harder to get rid of.

Sayed Kashua

#21. If strangers see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they don't know who you are. And if your friends see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they know who you are.

D.E. Stevenson

#22. I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

Eddie Trunk

#23. I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of three teenaged settlers and then judging the life - the young Palestinian from Jerusalem. That was the day that I decided that I have to go now.

Sayed Kashua

#24. Truth is in things, and not in words.

Herman Melville

#25. I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

Sayed Kashua

#26. I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first, otherwise, they will shoot you. So I can tell you a joke and maybe you will laugh at the beginning. But it's not about telling jokes.

Sayed Kashua

#27. Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.

Sayed Badreya

#28. Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.

Ramana Maharshi

#29. I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

Sayed Kashua