Adena Friedman Quotes & Sayings

I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears. It doesn't matter how many times you do it. — Kyoichi Katayama

Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness. — Brandon Bays

The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on. — Itzhak Perlman

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys. — Robert Glaser

Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are probably coming from the angle that they don't want to take it so seriously. I've always looked at it as an art but I don't look at it as a pretentious art. I understand it has to be taken lightly because it is just comedy in the end, but the good stand-up comics are someone with something to say. — Mitch Hedberg

It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys. — Germaine Greer

Trust not in any who exalt you, but in those who humiliate you. For this is the judgment of God: He hath cast down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble. — Martin Luther

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others. — Ashleigh Brilliant

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. — Charles Darwin

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods. — George Santayana

Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist? — Aleksandr Voinov

The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. — Elsa Tamez

Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. — Charles Bukowski