Quotes About Purim

#1. Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

Sandra Bernhard

#2. Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

I.L. Peretz

#3. Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#4. Live in the precious present.

Rick Pitino

#5. When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were mostly instrumentalists. I wanted to play jazz, not sing it.

Flora Purim

#6. You don't get any five shillings out of me.' 'Oh, all right.' He sat silent for a space. 'Things happen to guys that don't kick in their protection money,' he said dreamily.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Irene Rosenfeld

#8. I love what I am doing. I have a wonderful business. I have a wonderful television show that's doing - continues to do phenomenally in the ratings. I mean, it's been really a lot of fun.

Donald Trump

#9. They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise.

Katherine Applegate

#10. Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

Tori Amos

#11. I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

Ron Silver

#12. And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#13. I don't determine the singles. I believe the record company sends a bunch of CDs out to people that they trust in the business, and wait for their response to determine which songs will become singles.

Flora Purim

#14. The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

Aaron Wildavsky

#15. In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

Mechai Viravaidya

#16. You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

Jodi Picoult

#17. People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

L.M. Montgomery

#18. Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

Groucho Marx