Wounding Jew Quotes & Sayings

For the fragile, the cumulative effect of small shocks is smaller than the single effect of an equivalent single large shock. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective. — Michael Chabon

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on. — Ernest Hemingway,

Before I got to Juilliard I remember that I had learned the first few bars to all the Sachse etudes in several different keys because I knew what was coming. So in the first year he was throwing these Sachse etudes at me and I would knock off the first eight bars and fly right through it. He would say, 'Alright, that's good enough.' But, in my third year, he said 'Get out the Sachse book.' I couldn't understand why. So I pull it out and he said, 'Here, start in the middle.' I was in trouble! He said, 'Hey Balm, I took you for a guy who knows how to transpose-you're nothing but a bugler!' — Neil Balme

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both ... Not both. — Ayn Rand

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like. — Jasper Fforde

Maybe there is a chance for happiness after all, despite my online slutdom and psychopathic urges. — Alessandra Torre

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low. — John Simon

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game. — Austin O'Malley

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown. — Jeffrey Robinson

It's gonna be awesome! A suspected pedophile dunks my kids head in a bucket so when she dies she can live in an invisible castle. Set the alarm! — Dana Gould

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. — Thomas B. Macaulay