Yankel's Quotes

#1. The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the sunken night sky, closed its heavy eyes. The prehistoric ant in Yankel's ring, which had lain motionless in the honey-colored amber since long before Noah hammered the first plank, hid its head between its many legs, in shame.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. The future is just a memory that has yet to be born

Dean Cavanagh

#3. Ignorance. In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

Ruth Ozeki

#4. The fears and doubts I have are so real, so are they really as childish and silly as you always say they are.

Lynette Ferreira

#5. 2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think and 95% of the people would rather DIE than think

Bob Proctor

#6. So you hate me now,' she said quietly. 'How convenient for you. As though everything I did for you no longer counts, because I deceived you.

Meredith Duran

#7. We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

Lurlene McDaniel

#8. The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Bertrand Russell

#9. I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today.

Noam Chomsky

#10. Live in the moment that you are in.

Al McGuire

#11. We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

Philip Greenspun

#12. Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#13. The wise unify their consciousness and abandon attachment to the fruits of action,

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#14. I've learned one hell of a lot about men in my lifetime. They're all right to take to bed, but you sure better never let them get a stranglehold on you.

Blaze Starr

#15. I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!

Eva Longoria

#16. Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#17. You're impossible, Yankel! I'm possibly possible. Thank you, she said,

Jonathan Safran Foer

#18. But still . . . there was a charge in the air. It was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, after all.

Penelope Douglas