Bintel Quotes

#1. Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward, edited by Isaac Metzker.)

Nancy Pearl

#2. I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.

Sergei Lavrov

#3. I remember a story about an Irish warrior who killed his son by mistake but when he realised he didn't mind that much because it served the son right.

Max Porter

#4. He talked to people and fooled them into liking him, trusting him. He talked to them while he was killing them, torturing and turning the knife. It was only when there was no one to talk to that he whistled, which was why he did so after a murder ...

Markus Zusak

#5. Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe.

Paulo Coelho

#6. The creativity inherent in life is the counterbalance to tragedy. it affirms our belief that life is a good thing and provides a rich potential source of human meaning.

Greg Graffin

#7. With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

D. L. Hughley