Geller Quotes & Sayings

Larry Geller's Leaves of Elvis' Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book. — Uri Geller

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious. — Margaret Geller

When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was. — Margaret Geller

The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love without any acumen of normalcy. There is no "normal," because everyone is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. You can't compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door because they're probably modeling themselves after Chandler Bing and Monica Geller. — Chuck Klosterman

I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard. — Uri Geller

Marci Geller was a revelation! She's wonderful! — Christine Lavin

It's the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence, charity, medicine, technology, and all of the gifts of the Jews. Our goodness makes them ill. — Pamela Geller

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom. — Uri Geller

I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time. — Uri Geller

The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available. — Uri Geller

I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't. — Margaret Geller

I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed. — Uri Geller

When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps. — Margaret Geller

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty. — Margaret Geller

A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up. — Tamar Geller

I believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and positive thinking. I want you to use your visualization techniques. — Uri Geller

Smooth, but not a criminal. — Markham J. Geller

I don't take myself seriously all the time; I have to do quirky things, such as helping football teams, moving the ball away from McAllister's foot, getting into The Sun and The Star - because, you know, I like sensationalism, it's a part of what I do. — Uri Geller

Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people. — Stephen Jay Gould

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad — Pamela Geller

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. — Efim Geller

The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly, among the rich industrialized nations, we also lead by a substantial margin in the rate of poverty among children. — Margaret Geller

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. — Uri Geller

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life. — Uri Geller

If you will not stand with Israel, then I will not stand with you — Pamela Geller

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is. — Margaret Geller

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. — Pamela Geller

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why. — Margaret Geller

Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me. — Uri Geller

From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans. — Efim Geller

I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes. — James Randi

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. — Uri Geller

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling. — Pamela Geller

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home. — Margaret Geller

Rather than being liberated by er sexuality, a woman's reliance on sexual attractiveness was just one more way in which she allowed herself to be stereotyped and thus used by men — Jeffrey L. Geller

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste. — Margaret Geller

I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers. — Uri Geller

Girl, you are wiser than your years."
"Actually, Randall, I'm just older than I look. — Evan Geller

It is the responsibility of people like me and people who believe in the true Islam to stand up and say, that blasphemy is not punishable by death. — Pamela Geller

The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board. — Efim Geller

The biggest thing I'm seeing - and I have to be careful what I say here - is that people are tired of the old guard and the familiar brands. They're looking for more individuality and creativity, and that's coming out of this whole new wave of younger brands: Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, Robert Geller, myself. — Simon Spurr

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had. — Uri Geller

If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top. — Uri Geller

In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is 'Racist' — Pamela Geller

It's a matter of the heart ... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me. — Margaret Geller

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. — Uri Geller

When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did. — Margaret Geller

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position — Efim Geller

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. — Uri Geller

I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right. — Margaret Geller

What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful. — Uri Geller

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half. — Uri Geller

I honestly think that with our generation - Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller - there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be. — Joseph Altuzarra

We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people. — Uri Geller

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way. — James Randi

Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests Apple would have done. Or
and this is far more plausible
somehow the energy and excitement of the 10 million people who purchased iPhones has awakened their mind powers and caused the phones to bend. — Uri Geller

What we love is that Glenn Geller admits to being a superfan of Big Brother and obviously he seems to be a big fan of reality TV, which is fabulous. He's been really, really excited and has just been smiling through all of our meetings so it's always a lot of fun. — Allison Grodner

In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had last noticed when he gave good reviews to the psychokinetic (or whatever) capacities of the Israeli conjuror and fraud Uri Geller. The heir to the throne seems to possess the ability to surround himself - perhaps by some mysterious ultramagnetic force? - with every moon-faced spoon-bender, shrub-flatterer, and water-diviner within range. — Christopher Hitchens

The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.". — Pamela Geller

There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works. — Margaret Geller

Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances. — Efim Geller

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence. — Mikhail Botvinnik

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. — Uri Geller

Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts its authority over non-Muslims, unlike Jewish law and unlike canon law, which is why they're slaughtering Christians, they're slaughtering secular Muslims across the Muslim world. — Pamela Geller

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history. — Pamela Geller

I love you with an awful intensity. Sometimes when I just sit in a trance staring at a piece of paper, pen poised and immovable, longing for you and remembering you and imagining you. I love you horribly and beautifully. — Marlene Wagman-Geller

Roman Catholics don't like when their religion is mocked. Christians don't like it. Jews don't like it. But this is what it takes to live in a pluralistic society. You have the right to offend and be offended. — Pamela Geller

The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online. — Pamela Geller

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world. — Uri Geller

One clear observation of Geller in action had an overpowering effect on me. I felt as if the whole framework with which I viewed the world had suddenly been destroyed. I seemed very naked an vulnerable, surrounded by a hostile iniverse. It was many days before I was able to come to terms with this sensation. Some of my collegues have even declined to face up to the problem by refusing to attend the demonstrations of such strange phenomena. That is a perfectly understandable position, but one that does not augur well for the future of science. — John G. Taylor

I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying. — Uri Geller

I no longer want to be rich because I am rich. — Uri Geller

What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk. — Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski

adopted an approach that resembled Geller's. She started doing group mentoring sessions instead of only one-on-ones: I asked myself, "Am I really the only person who can help in this particular instance?" I tried not to think about myself as the only resource I was optimizing, and started connecting people to help each other. — Adam M. Grant

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes. — Uri Geller

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss. — Margaret Geller