Ziad Rahbani Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminferous ether. — Lord Kelvin

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings ... — Mary MacLane

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person. — Spalding Gray

Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers. — Matthew Freud

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances. — Ryan White

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't. — Andy Weir

I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am not one of them. It is that business of being universal, a word hopelessly stripped of meaning for me. Faulkner wrote what I suppose could be called regional literature and had it published all over the world. That's what I wish to do. If I tried to write a universal novel, it would be water. Behind this question is the suggestion that to write for black people is somehow to diminish the writing. From my perspective there are only black people. When I say 'people,' that's what I mean. — Toni Morrison

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. — Erma Bombeck

How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe. — Richard Rohr

I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company. — Jeremy Stoppelman

While she couldn't deliver a comic routine to save her life, she had a well-developed ability to look blank and confused, and she found to her surprise that she enjoyed the laughter. — Starhawk

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy. — Finley Peter Dunne

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall