Ran Gavrieli Quotes & Sayings

I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think. — Zooey Deschanel

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves. — Jane Jacobs

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess. — Andrew Cuomo

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed. — Voltaire

Apparently, it was possible to polish a turd. — Liliana Hart

I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better. — Rick Riordan

God, it would never go away, this anger, this rage that was like the ceaseless movement of the spring winds through the desert, this knot in his guts, this splinter in his heart that shot a pain through him that eventually found its way into his lungs, then out of his mouth and into the open air, the sound making the whole world turn away from him. It would never go away, never, never, and there would never be any peace. [ ... ] Maybe he had it all wrong, maybe he wasn't a victim at all, not at all, because he had decided that this was the only thing that would ever be truly his, and so he clung to it, would cling to it forever. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

As long as death exists, man will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Who am I? I'm the one you love to love and love to hate. I make you laugh, cry & cringe. You'll forever remember me or easily forget me. I'm past, present & future in black and white. I'm unique but always compared. You want me to take you away from your life if only for a little while. My pen knows no morals or boundaries. I'm a writer! — Eveli Acosta

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself. — Etgar Keret

But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said. — Hans Christian Andersen

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money. — Tig Notaro