Joel Rosenberg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
-
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
-
Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
-
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
-
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
-
All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
-
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
-
You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
-
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
-
When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
-
We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
-
Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
-
To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
-
I don't really like to promote anything, but I will promote things I believe in and things that work.
-
There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
-
We do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.
-
Complexity. In general individual decision makers must be assumed to have multidimensional values which attach nonmonetary subjective cost or value to (1) the process of making and executing individual or group decisions, (2) the end result of such decisions, and (3) the rewards (and perhaps behavior) of other individuals involved in the decision process.
-
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
-
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
-
I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.
-
Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.
-
We have to be about finding long-term solutions to our biggest challenges.
-
Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're eager to read something else. It might send you in a completely different direction. I love that about reading.
-
Miscellaneous is always the largest category.
