Gerald Abrahams Quotes

The idea comes before the logical argument.

Gerald Abrahams

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• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Tired
  • Personal

• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Want
  • Myself

• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Trouble
  • Your
  • Troubled

• History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Different
  • Children

• I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Rock
  • Wrestling
  • Favorite

• I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Always
  • Chance

• I want to serve the people.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Want
  • Serve

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nothing

• I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Myself
  • Journey
  • Start

• A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Real
  • Think
  • Baseball

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Write
  • Try

• I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Different
  • Feel

• It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Enough
  • Creating
  • Draws

• Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Idea
  • Building
  • Entrepreneurship

• So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Grandmother

• This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

  

  Michelle Moran
  • Moments
  • Memories
  • Steam

• The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.

  

  Brion Gysin
  • Fiction
  • Term
  • Texts

• The idea comes before the logical argument.

  

  Gerald Abrahams
  • Idea
  • Argument
  • Comes