Tzadik Quotes & Sayings

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. — Arthur Murphy

When God does not answer our prayers, the way we want Him to is because we ask according to our own will, and not His. God's will must be a part of our prayer language. — Danny L. Deaube

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante. — Debi Mazar

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. — Fernando Pessoa

The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three. — Alexandre Dumas

Not enough to be in the light, in order to see, but it should be in light of what you see. — Khaled Naili

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.' — John Zorn

I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine. — Kevin Whately

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that. — Rumi

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea. — Sam Altman

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one. — Victor Wooten

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. — Armstrong Williams

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell. — John Zorn

The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good. — Dean Koontz

I understand his fear. Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories? — Nicola Yoon

It's like lifting off in an airplane: you're on the ground, on the ground, on the ground... and then you're up, riding on a magical cushion of air and prince of all you survey. That makes me happy, because it's what I was made to do. — F Scott Fitzgerald

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. — Anna Chlumsky