Schtetl Quotes

#1. My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

Marge Piercy

#2. There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.

Bob Newhart

#3. I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

William C. Bryant

#4. No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

Alice McDermott

#5. Without a goal or an obstacle you're just running through a green cricket pitch for the rest of your life.

Chloe-Jasmine Whichello

#6. Failure doesn't come from falling down, failure comes from not getting up

Zig Ziglar

#7. I just try to be true to myself and write about things I'm passionate about. I think what most people don't like about movies is they can tell that most movies are a product, and they don't mean that much to the people who make them.

Judd Apatow

#8. There is no control over memory.

Jean Rhys

#9. What the heck is this, a trivet?"
"I AM WAFFLE FACE!

Van Jensen

#10. I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

Christina Ricci

#11. If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

Jean Shrimpton

#12. Sleep has never been a priority in my life.

Ryan Kwanten