Shlimazl's Quotes

#1. The twelfth-century poet Abraham ibn Ezra, whom you encountered in high school as Browning's Rabbi ben Ezra (may his tribe increase), limpidly described the shlimazl's lot when he wrote: If I sold lamps, The sun, In spite, Would shine at night.

Leo Rosten

#2. I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

Yaya Han

#3. The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. When people think about a placebo such as the royal touch, they usually dismiss it as "just psychology." But, there is nothing "just" about the power of a placebo, and in reality it represents the amazing way our mind controls our body.

Dan Ariely

#5. We saw Hulu as an opportunity to broaden our audience for ABC content.

Anne Sweeney

#6. One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.

John G. D. Clark

#7. The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

Todd Stocker

#8. It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

Laurence Harvey

#9. For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

John Cole

#10. You must be Lilith,"
"You have got to be fucking with me.

Rachel Spanswick

#11. I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

Alana Haim

#12. A starving man won't notice a dirty plate.

Mary Renault

#13. Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

Benjamin Whichcote

#14. Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance

Jackson Pollock