Smadar Grossman Quotes & Sayings

Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. — Margaret Atwood

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. — William Shakespeare

What pleases is what is terrible, gentle, and poetic. — Georges Franju

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting. — Donald Sutherland

Moments like modulations come in human relationships: when what has been until then an objective situation, one perhaps described by the mind to itself in semi-literary terms, one it is sufficient merely to classify under some general heading (man with alcoholic problems, woman with unfortunate past, and so on) becomes subjective; becomes unique; becomes, by empathy, instantaneously shared rather than observed. — John Fowles

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us. — Dhirubhai Ambani

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If he ever sang, she thought, the song would be so unbearably gorgeous, it would soar over spires of stone and steel, and pierce the hearts of humans and other creatures, and he could rule the world. — Thea Harrison

That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint. — Michael Ian Black

Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person. — Peter Yarrow

When my mind is clear, I feel like I can give more of myself to those around me and hopefully bring light and joy and an infectious kind of energy to inspire them to do whatever they want to do. That's really the key behind it all. — Julianne Hough

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace. — Anton Chekhov

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial. — Richard Baxter