Uri Shulevitz Quotes

Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

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• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Character
  • Story
  • Looks

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Brain
  • Deep
  • Information

• English is not my first language.

  

  Camila Alves
  • English
  • Language
  • First

• Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Job
  • Me
  • Thought

• America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Character
  • America
  • Islam

• Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • Parent
  • Someone

• Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Successful

• To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Strength

• It was many and many a year ago,In a District styled E. C.,That a monster dwelt whom I came to knowBy the name of Cannibal Flea,And the brute was possessed with no other thoughtThan to live - and to live on me.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Live
  • Monster

• I will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. They reckon of the saints a tribe, King of heaven, may I be eloquent about thee! Before the separation of my soul from my flesh.

  

  Taliesin
  • Work
  • May
  • Soul

• In a sense the present work is to be regarded as a secondary-study of the work of a group of writers in the field of social theory. But the genus 'secondary study' comprises several species; of these an example of only one, and that perhaps not the best known, is to be found in these pages.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Work
  • Present
  • Study

• How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it. Yet evidently the true object of education, now as ever, is to develop the capabilities of the head and of the heart.

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • True

• I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do.

  

  Jimmy Bennett
  • Star
  • Celebrity

• I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Power
  • Faith

• Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • May
  • Peace

• I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Father
  • Dying

• If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Life
  • Up
  • Honor

• I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Kids

• In black and white it had been easy to ignore. But here was a television station with the audacity to send pictures of real red blood into everyone’s home. Our boys in the field were bleeding in color.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Home
  • Blood
  • Pictures

• People are suspicious of science. They see it as being responsible for problems like the degradation of our climate. There is also a strand in society that says physics is terribly hard.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • People
  • Society
  • Science

• Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

  

  Uri Shulevitz