Schlep Quotes

#1. Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Helen Gurley Brown

#2. The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.

Caroline Knapp

#3. Working from home or going on maternity leave is no excuse to let go of your look. The more you schlep around in drawstring pants and tees, the less you're going to be able to pull yourself together when necessary.

Nina Garcia

#4. If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life
whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours.

Don Roff

#5. The Web meant that I didn't have to schlep a whole bunch of stuff to a museum and fight with all their constraints and make something that, in the end, only 150 people would actually get out to see. Instead, I could put something together in my lab and make it accessible to the world.

Ken Goldberg

#6. Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Bette Midler

#7. Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

Ellen Muth

#8. And so was the synagogue lifted and moved. It was in 1783 that wheels were attached, making the shtetl's ever-changing negotiation of Jewishness and Humanness less of a schlep.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.

Hannah Ware

#10. Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend much of their careers developing their craft and working in the comedy clubs all over America.

George Schlatter

#11. Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry.

Julia Butler

#12. Don't stay too long in the shame-filled grounds of relapse. Fertile soil awaits your return and your recoverying.

Holli Kenley

#13. The trouble with life is, we never know when we are in the zone, until we think back, with jealous longing, years later.

Robert Black

#14. Live in your hopes and not in your fears.

Johnny Majors

#15. Addressing the economic plight of women may ultimately be the feminist platform that draws a collective response. It may well become the place of collective organizing, the common ground, the issue that unites all women.

Bell Hooks

#16. Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

John Eldredge

#17. Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

Mel Brooks