Gidon Quotes & Sayings

Wasn't living your life based around what people thought and expected of you a little... well, stupid? — Kady Cross

There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war. — Albert Einstein

I like things bright. — Christine Taylor

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness." — Swami Vivekananda

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. — Pema Chodron

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them. — Peter Diamandis

He looked like a giant lion lying belly-up in the sun with his legs hanging open, licking his paws and airing out his balls. — Tina Reber

You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy. — Al Madrigal

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. — Aristotle.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous. — Helen Mirren

However close you can be to a vegan diet and further from the mean American diet, the better you are for the planet." quoted by Gidon Eshel (Bard College geographer) — James McWilliams

Some people said I was annoying, but now look how far we've come. — The Miz

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. — Gene Tierney

One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus. — Glenn Healy

Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise. — Gwendolyn MacEwen

It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally. — Aleksey Igudesman

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse. — Nellie McKay