Jacob Epstein Quotes
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
Quotes to Explore
-
If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
-
The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
-
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
-
I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
-
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
-
One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
-
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
-
Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
-
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
-
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
-
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
-
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
-
I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
-
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
-
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
-
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
-
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
-
I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
-
If you start sweet, then you've got somewhere to go.
-
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
-
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.
-
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
-
If we can maintain that level or improve on it, we can do well in next month's European Championships.
-
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
