Neusner Jacob Quotes & Sayings

I get a small quiver of shame in my stomach whenever I remember it. — Lemony Snicket

A dear and long-time friend, ... asked me, "Jack, how long does it usually take you to write a book?" I replied, "Of course it depends on the project and its requirements, each book has its own rules. But for a statement to the world at large, once I've thought a book through and written it in my mind, it takes me around a week or so, depending on this and that, ordinarily at the rate of a chapter a day, but I've had some two-chapters day and some chapters have taken two days. And then of course there is revision, but around a week is about right." He seemed surprised, and I was surprised by his surprise, so I thought, maybe I'm wrong. I went home and wrote this book, at the perfectly normal pace of a chapter a day, as usual ... — Jacob Neusner

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent. — Jacob Neusner

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also. — Ulysses S. Grant

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them. — Jacob Neusner

This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure. — James Lecesne

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself. — Jacob Neusner

I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV. — Johnny Weir

Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain... — J. Limbu

The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria. — Adam Nevill

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you. — Madonna Ciccone

I cook all the time, and I cook all different kinds of things, but never Mexican at home. That's my work. — Rick Bayless

I love my babies so much that I could kiss them all day long..as a job. I could be a professional baby kisser. No joke. — Jessica Capshaw

All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness. — Susana Fortes

No man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or telling the truth who becomes really original
and doesn't notice it. — C.S. Lewis

Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men. — Ishmael Reed

My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt. — Theodore Roethke

There's no answer that ends the search, you know. Obviously, there never will be. The artist seeks to capture the world because the nature of every single object is a mystery to him. The philosopher addresses human nature because he's a stranger to every part of it. It — Ethan Canin

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage. — Andy Kindler

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order. — Jacob Neusner