Nathan Englander Quotes

#1. When my mother told my father what had happened, he didn't want to believe it. "Nobody ever wants to believe what happens to the Jews," she said, "not even us.

Nathan Englander

#2. I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

Nathan Englander

#3. You cannot learn to curse like an American.

Nathan Englander

#4. The night was a runny, watercolor black, rain sighing high in the tree tops, rustling on the pavement.

Lauren Gilley

#5. President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.

Conan O'Brien

#6. If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

Jon Stewart

#7. No, no," Arnie says. "Fondle--fondle is to touch. Everything sounds Yiddish to you. Far-fetched, far-flung..." "Farflung is Yiddish." "No," Arnie says, "it's not.

Nathan Englander

#8. And we know, until they stop their terrible motion, until they cease swooping and darting and banging into the walls, until they alight, come to rest, exhausted, spent, there is nothing at all we can do.

Nathan Englander

#9. These are hopeful stories from hopeless times. Without them the grief of this nation would tip it into the sea.

Nathan Englander

#10. Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

Nathan Englander

#11. We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Seth Godin

#12. The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

Nathan Englander

#13. sunbeams everywhere and mist floating like freshly minted

Haruki Murakami

#14. To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Bertolt Brecht

#15. How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.

Nathan Englander

#16. We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.

Pope John Paul II

#17. I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

Michelle Yeoh

#18. I'd much prefer my books to shoes ... In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

Nathan Englander