Schmaltz Quotes

#1. Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away ... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

Calvin Trillin

#2. Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#3. There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart ... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

Walt Disney

#4. Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.

Jerry Saltz

#5. This is the heart I need. And if I have this - and a little schmaltz - I dont need anything else in the world

Alice Clayton

#6. It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.

N. Scott Momaday

#7. Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Not wisely but too well.

Stephen Evans

#9. Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever.

Kyra Sedgwick

#10. She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.

S.A. Tawks

#11. Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

Meat Loaf

#12. If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

Shel Silverstein

#13. Head Smashed In, may I help you?

Dave Barry

#14. I feel the most alive when I write.

Kristy Brown

#15. I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Antony Sher

#16. Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#17. True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present.

Peter Scazzero

#18. There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein