Srour Zaher Quotes & Sayings

I get very nervous about not being around the office. — Arash Ferdowsi

I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives. — Jeph Loeb

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,
rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island. — Lawrence Block

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house! — Nick Lachey

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else. — John Piper

... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself. — Thomas Sweeney

If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will. — R.A. Torrey

The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke them to grant themselves the category of artist. Taking the anxiety of an unreachable happiness, the angst of unrealized dreams, the indifference towards action and life, as the defining criteria of genius or talent, immediately facilitates everyone who feels or has felt that same anxiety, suffers that same angst and is prey of that particular indifference, to feel themselves convinced that they themselves are an interesting individuality, and that Destiny, granting them that longing, suffering and dreams, implicitly bestowed on them intellectual greatness. — Fernando Pessoa

I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me. — Nobu Matsuhisa

the all too human need to conjure symbolic meaning from meaningless events. — Steven Erikson

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful? — Sandra Bullock

Somewhere in the far north of Canada there wuld be snow, falling soundlessly overy the Beaufort Sea, falling over the Artic without a soul to see it. What kind of weather was that, Samson wondered, and how was one to use this information except as proof that the world was too much to bear? — Nicole Krauss

The first time Kiya met Hapi was over a year ago. On that day, she was at the temple - not to sell pigeons and bread as usual, but to pray and offer sacrifices on the altar of Horus - the God of protection. — Mirette Baghat