Schechter V Quotes

#1. I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

Bharati Mukherjee

#2. What Kant refers to as depression is simply this stark realization: that thought is only incidentally human. It would take a later generation of philosophers to derive the conclusion of this: that thought thinks us, not the reverse. Legend

Eugene Thacker

#3. Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.

Ben Yagoda

#4. Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.

Bruce Schechter

#5. If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

Rick Pitino

#6. I pulled on the restraints, frustrated, hurting, and completely devastated. I could feel tears sliding down my skin, into my ears, and back over my scalp. Which told me that they'd cut off my hair, too. For some reason, that little bit of vanity was what it took to undo me completely.

Elizabeth Schechter

#7. I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'

Colin Hanks

#8. Heroes ask questions and villains make arguments. QUESTIONS

Jeffrey Schechter

#9. Delay not to seize the hour!

Aeschylus

#10. Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

Solomon Schechter

#11. By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Solomon Schechter

#12. All great discoveries are made by opening up the changing room door

Josh Stern

#13. You can't choose the road you take; you can only hope to avoid the potholes.

Cassia Leo

#14. Have you tried this treatment for female baldness? I hear it's life-changing.

Laini Taylor

#15. I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

Khloe Kardashian

#16. You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Solomon Schechter

#17. Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.

Dennis Hopper

#18. Fish had already told both Wertham and Detective King that, in addition to shoving needles inside his body, he liked to soak pieces of cotton in alcohol, cram them up his rectum, and set fire to them.

Harold Schechter

#19. Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.

Solomon Schechter

#20. Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

Solomon Schechter

#21. New facts often trigger new ideas

T.L. Osborn

#22. Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

Solomon Schechter