Verklempt Yiddish Quotes

#1. Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

John Corigliano

#2. I prepare for the next fight and I train for that opponent. I'm thinking about Dan Henderson and not thinking about the championship.

Rafael Cavalcante

#3. We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [ ... ] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Maimonides

#4. I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

Tim McGraw

#5. Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

Marcia Conner

#6. Well, they had to have me in the G-string because this is PG-13, right?

Kelly Hu

#7. I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

Pablo Picasso

#8. I spent all my youth with horses.

Guillaume Canet

#9. The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual ...

Carl Jung

#10. His cock shared none of his reservations and tried to impress with its best imitation of a towel rack.

Angel Martinez

#11. If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Nikki Giovanni

#12. The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into her golems, to satisfy her own need to be useful.

Helene Wecker

#13. The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

Robert Kiyosaki

#14. There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Thomas B. Macaulay