Garian Property Quotes & Sayings

I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level. — Larry Gelbart

Because of the foundational importance of the New Testament, my analysis of its reliability consumed much of my two-year investigation into Christianity when I was a skeptic. I subjected the Gospels to eight tests they might face in a court of law - the intention test, the ability test, the character test, the consistency test, the bias test, the cover-up test, the corroboration test, and the adverse witness test - to determine whether they could be considered trustworthy.23 My verdict was that their essential reliability is beyond serious doubt. — Ravi Zacharias

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. — Ambrose Bierce

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field. — Jane Smiley

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years. — Leonard Cohen

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes. — Steve Goodier

Everything goes back to its beginnings, everything returns to chaos. Now, — Jose Saramago