Shtelt Quotes & Sayings

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut? — Jim Butcher

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything! — Bryan Cranston

Such were the shepherds of Judea! In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs with them around the blaze; in fact, simple-minded, tender-hearted; effects in due, in part, to the primitive life they led, but chiefly to their constant care of things lovable and helpless. — Lew Wallace

The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority. — Ali Khamenei

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates

Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292) — Rebecca Goldstein

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. — Al Spalding