Top 25 Gingold Quotes
#1. I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.
Joshua Bell
#2. My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.
Joshua Bell
#5. My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
Hermione Gingold
#6. My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.
Hermione Gingold
#7. To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.
Hermione Gingold
#8. Anyone have a pen and paper?"
There was a moment of stillness as the four of us looked around, totally clueless. The only things any of us ever wrote with were our phones. And there was no way this was going to be a vote via group text.
Goldy Moldavsky
#10. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Hermione Gingold
#11. Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#12. One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.
Hermione Gingold
#13. I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.
Ronald Perelman
#14. Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
Hermione Gingold
#15. Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.
Jenna Fischer
#16. A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
Hermione Gingold
#17. There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.
Hermione Gingold
#18. Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.
Hermione Gingold
#20. What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.
Hermione Gingold
#21. Don't seek to lead people to a God you have ceased to believe in.
Ian Maclaren
#22. I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.
Hermione Gingold
#23. [When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.
Hermione Gingold
#24. Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.
Hermione Gingold
#25. The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.
Mary Papas
