Jonathan Greenblatt Quotes & Sayings

When F. W. Woolworth opened his first store, a merchant on the
same street tried to fight the new competition. He hung out a big
sign: "Doing business in this same spot for over fifty years." The
next day Woolworth also put out a sign. It read: "Established a
week ago: no old stock. — Peter Hay

Lucy, a girl's name for Lucifer. That my mother would have found me devil-like did not surprise me, for I often thought of her as god-like, and are not the children of gods devils? I did not grow to like the name Lucy-I would have much preferred to be called Lucifer outright-but whenever I saw my name I always reached out to give it a strong embrace. — Jamaica Kincaid

The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows. — Peter Carey

I don't know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever ... — Fuyumi Soryo

Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. — Vincent Van Gogh

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen. — Alex Van Halen

You're a fucking idiot, Elish. A complete fucking idiot and your house of cards is falling down. — Quil Carter

The innumerable fools have made the learned very scarce — Imam Ali

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people. — Emmett Shear

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it. — Annie E. Clark

I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film. — John Krasinski

Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine? — Peter Frampton

Mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism ... they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. — Alan Watts

the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42 — Niall Ferguson