Fretag Quotes

#1. This is very creative, said Mrs. Fretag, and she began to read my essay. The words sounded good to me. Everybody was listening. My words filled the room, from blackboard to blackboard, they hit the ceiling and bounced off, they covered Mrs. Fretag's shoes and piled up on the floor.

Charles Bukowski

#2. The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Ramsay MacMullen

#4. I have plenty of enemies ... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

Arnold Friberg

#5. The Oscars is the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party

Jon Stewart

#6. I definitely have a soft spot for women. I was raised by women - my mom and two older sisters. I've been surrounded by estrogen since I was born.

Jessie Pavelka

#7. Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil
the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

William George Jordan

#8. I grinned at Daemon and held up a bulb that was so green it almost matched his eyes. I decided it was going to be his bulb.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.

Judith Shulevitz