Tennenbaum Quotes & Sayings

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far. — Jacques Barzun

Grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice. — Silvia Tennenbaum

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members. — Silvia Tennenbaum

Because I have a feeling most people who ahve met you get the urge to kill you at one point or another — Jus Accardo

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world. — Silvia Tennenbaum

There comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses. — Silvia Tennenbaum

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do. — David Mamet

Everybody got to write you - but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life. — Miguel Syjuco

Life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. — Ann Voskamp

Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn. — Paulo Coelho

The compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. — Silvia Tennenbaum

I don't know if you realize this, but there are some researchers - doctors - who are giving this kind of drug to volunteers, to see what the effects are, and they're doing it the proper scientific way, in clean white hospital rooms, away from trees and flowers and the wind, and they're surprised at how many of the experiments turn sour. They've never taken any sort of psychedelic themselves, needless to say. Their volunteers - they're called 'subjects,' of course - are given mescaline or LSD and they're all opened up to their surroundings, very sensitive to color and light and other people's emotions, and what are they given to react to? Metal bed-frames and plaster walls, and an occasional white coat carrying a clipboard. Sterility. Most of them say afterward that they'll never do it again. — Alexander Shulgin