Marranes Quotes

#1. I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

Jacques Derrida

#2. What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

Robert Breault

#3. Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

#4. I want you to think of me as a soldier,' she persists. 'A soldier in this war who's doing what needs to be done.

Pittacus Lore

#5. On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Douglas Coupland

#6. I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

Harry Hamlin

#7. Today, in our "shut up, get over it, and move on" mentality, our society misses so much, it's no wonder we are a generation that longs to tell our stories.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#8. If you devote yourself to positivity, positivity will devote itself to you.

Mod Sun

#9. Verity, you have a choice," he said gently. "We eat, we talk, we pass the evening with an attempt at civility. Or we fuck. It's up to you.

Anna Campbell

#10. Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual activity of a human being. Whatever is done by humanity in the art-and-science domain is placed in-between.

Heinrich Neuhaus

#11. My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

Brett Ratner

#12. How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

Kim Stanley Robinson

#13. [The atonement's] authenticity and value in no way depend on the response of any man, but depend instead on its satisfaction of God and the demands of His righteousness.

Robert Shank