Quotes About Pesach

#1. Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer!

Samuel Colbran

#2. Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

Will Self

#3. There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

Rush Limbaugh

#4. He was high up now, gazing across to where Montmartre itself gazed out over the city. He was swept along in the wind, admiring the twin steeples of Notre-Dame as he passed, along with the dogged, devilish gargoyles of St. Jacques.

Toby Barlow

#5. For all that sentients have achieved with weapons and machines, life remains an ongoing battle for survival, with the strong or the smart at the top of the heap, and the rest kept in check by firepower and laws.

James Luceno

#6. The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

Calvin Coolidge

#7. The person who builds a character makes foes.

Neil Young

#8. I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

Harrison Ford

#9. Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

Jim Elliot

#10. Jenny held
her breath wondering whether her matzo would pass muster.

Adam Yamey

#11. In years past, to keep their men close, women would wear a ring and bear children.
It doesn't work like that today.
Nowadays, how do we hold on to those we love?
I've no idea.

Guillaume Musso

#12. Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath ... a little winter no spring can melt.

Marge Piercy

#13. Once apparently the chief concern and masterpiece of the gods, the human race now begins to bear the aspect of an accidental by-product of their vast, inscrutable and probably nonsensical operations.

H.L. Mencken

#14. When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

Ben Carson

#15. The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it.

Stacy London

#16. Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

Kurban Said

#17. This is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen.

Tom Robbins