Vera Nazarian Quotes

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective.

I'll tell you a secret.
Old storytellers never die.
They disappear into their own story.

Fear is a cold bastard. The only way to overcome it is to act - to take the first step and just move forward.

Luck is not as random as you think.
Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

If Music is a Place
then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

In the absence of Death, In the presence of Death, Only one thing remains, It is Love.

One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

There is only Love
and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

In the desert, the only god is a well.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

Every story needs to be worth telling.

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror
its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter - an act.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

In any case, age is nothing more than the acquisition of Temporal Perspective! Oh, and rheumatism too, I must add.

Hope is the last thing that dies.
Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all ...

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey - or anyone else for that matter - is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.
At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale ...

What is blood but the wine of life?

I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire ... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.
A foolish sage is one who forgets this.
Remember, or come full circle.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

To every rule there is an exception - and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time
'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

I am happy.
I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.
I am happy.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale ... at the moment.

Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.