Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

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• The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Die
  • Day
  • Cool

• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • American
  • President

• It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Interesting
  • Easy

• Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Reality
  • Wish

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Air
  • Ball
  • Hitting

• The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • Years
  • New

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Good
  • Like
  • Expect

• Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Protection
  • Deception
  • Fraud

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Facts
  • Cnn
  • Israelis

• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • You
  • English
  • Say

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Food
  • Health

• I play sad bastard music. For the money.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Sad

• I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Want
  • Travel
  • Dog

• Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Alone
  • Building
  • Library

• The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Up
  • Art

• There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Mean

• In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends