Cheder Quotes

#1. At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

Clive Sinclair

#2. I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.

Lenny Abrahamson

#3. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

#4. Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

#6. I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

David Allen

#7. Much of what you see out there is manufactured by your brain, painted in like computer-generated graphics in a movie; only a very small part of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world, the rest comes from internal memory stores and other processes.

Ruby Wax

#8. Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.

David Lynch

#9. I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'.

Lauren Cohan

#10. His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time.

Stephen King

#11. Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;
Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

Christina Rossetti

#12. If Mike Tyson was the voice of your GPS, would you ever not use it?

Artie Lange

#13. I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

Helen Fielding

#14. As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

Boris Pasternak

#15. Child molestation is a touchy subject ... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it!

Woody Allen