Schlemiel Yiddish Quotes & Sayings

I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell to the cerebrally relaxed. It was a disaster. I had beer thrown over me for being a) a nuisance, b) not as good as Wordsworth and c) a nancy for writing poetry in the first place. — Peter Finch

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt. — Ravi Zacharias

Sex is primal. And it's ugly as fuckin' hell. I know that better than anyone. But with you ... with you it's all beauty. You managed to obliterate the ugly, Kat. — Anonymous

Becoming serious is not the same thing as approaching the truth — Haruki Murakami

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage! — Ann Radcliffe

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand. — Sanjay Kumar

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn. — Alexander Pushkin

You know, it's the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you're not the puppet of the piano, you're not the puppet of the muse, but you're not its master, either. It's a relationship, it's a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over. — Elizabeth Gilbert

words are life set down on paper. So seek out the company of others. — Paulo Coelho

I'm scared of screwing up my kids. — Tori Spelling

In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

You shouldn't pay attention to things that don't grab your attention. If you do, you're being a pretentious douchebag. — Paul Jarvis