Adank Yiddish Quotes & Sayings

These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art. — Geoff Dyer

Show me a mortal who is not pursued, and I'll show you a corpse. Every hunter is hunted, every mind that knows itself has stalkers. We drive and are driven. The unknown pursues the ignorant, the truth assails every scholar wise enough to know his ignorance, for that is the meaning of unknowable truths. — Steven Erikson

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life. — Daoud Hari

But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when there was foolish counsel available from his male friends. — Eddie Lenihan

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer. — Gwen Stefani

Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated. — John Dryden

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty. — Malcolm Turnbull

My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want. — Dick Cavett

Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly. — Anonymous

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god. — Marilyn Manson

And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia. — Galt Niederhoffer

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success. — Napoleon Hill

You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins."
"Insha'Allah. — Leslie Cockburn

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination. — Aaron Copland