Yiddish Expressions Quotes & Sayings

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there. — David Oyelowo

Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say 'It all happened so fast. — J.A. Redmerski

One fall day in Boston, a tall mechanical engineering student named Joe entered the student union at Harvard University. He was all ambition and acne — Dan Ariely

Actually I'm a big fan of Spielberg and the way he shoots action scenes. — Tommy Wirkola

My job is okay. You know what an okay job is, don't you? It's a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time — Tim Tharp

weak thought is always thought about its most recent developments. — Kevin Belmonte

But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the time. It's okay not to be okay. I told you that, but I'm relearning it myself. But not being okay doesn't mean you stop living. — Jasinda Wilder

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

If there is but one pearl of wisdom I have to impart to you, after all my observations here thus far, it is do not take yourself too seriously. Because when you get here, you might just find that you are not exactly who or what you thought you were. — Natasha Rendell

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. — Bill Hicks

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states. — George Soros

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. — Dorothy Parker

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial — Arthur Schopenhauer

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile. — William James

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes