Ansky's Quotes

#1. That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.'
It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

Roberto Bolano

#2. Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

S. Ansky

#3. Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.

Rhonda Byrne

#4. I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

Walter Murch

#5. [God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#6. Think about science fiction movies with lots of special effects: If you notice that special effects are special effects, they will fail.

Stephen M. Kosslyn

#7. A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

S. Ansky

#8. This man was like a decadent triple-chocolate truffle cake with chocolate shavings sprinkled on top.

Katie Reus

#9. Don't despise your contributions to Humanity. Every little kind deed counts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

#11. My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

Tommy Bolin

#12. Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Pete Domenici

#13. An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

Octavio Paz

#14. It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.

Jimmy Carter

#15. All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

S. Ansky

#16. Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

John Schnatter

#17. The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.

Bill Ayers

#18. Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Mary Baker Eddy

#19. When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

S. Ansky

#20. Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

Edna St. Vincent Millay