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Yiddish To English Quotes By Mel Brooks

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it. — Mel Brooks

Yiddish To English Quotes By K.M. Shea

You can never get a true measure of a person - you can never fully understand yourself, even - because life is always throwing new things at us. — K.M. Shea

Yiddish To English Quotes By Sissy Spacek

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought. — Sissy Spacek

Yiddish To English Quotes By Lia Habel

Probably the easiest way to explain [the situation] is to simply say that your proteins refuse to bend [to the zombie protein's command].
'My mother was right,' Nora muttered. 'Even my genes are stubborn. — Lia Habel

Yiddish To English Quotes By Robert Giroux

Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast. — Robert Giroux

Yiddish To English Quotes By Nina D'Angelo

He'd never had to chase a woman before, or work so hard to try and convince one to date him. — Nina D'Angelo

Yiddish To English Quotes By John Paul Caponigro

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images. — John Paul Caponigro

Yiddish To English Quotes By Anita Diamant

The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English "translation" for R.S.V.P. is "Remember to Send Vedding Presents. — Anita Diamant

Yiddish To English Quotes By William Beebe

To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object. — William Beebe

Yiddish To English Quotes By Justin Chon

It's funny - when I started acting, I didn't know I was going to be talking about Asian-American issues so much. You know what, though? It just comes with the territory, being ethnic. — Justin Chon

Yiddish To English Quotes By Bill Fairclough

Plastic flowers last for hours — Bill Fairclough

Yiddish To English Quotes By Michael Chabon

In photographs she is a boxy woman, girdled with steel, shod in coal-black stompers, her bosom so large it might have housed turbines. She was all but illiterate in Yiddish and English but obliged my grandfather, and later Uncle Ray, to read to her daily from the Yiddish press so that she could keep abreast of the latest calamities to beset Jewry. From — Michael Chabon

Yiddish To English Quotes By Carlos Santana

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. — Carlos Santana

Yiddish To English Quotes By Melody Beattie

I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think. — Melody Beattie

Yiddish To English Quotes By Saul Rubinek

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on. — Saul Rubinek

Yiddish To English Quotes By Hilda Doolittle

Love has no charm
when Love is swept to earth:
you'd make a lop-winged god,
frozen and contrite,
of god up-darting,
winged for passionate flight. — Hilda Doolittle

Yiddish To English Quotes By Cristina Marrero

Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man. — Cristina Marrero

Yiddish To English Quotes By Oscar Isaac

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool. — Oscar Isaac

Yiddish To English Quotes By Helle Thorning-Schmidt

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Yiddish To English Quotes By Roy Blount Jr.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies. — Roy Blount Jr.

Yiddish To English Quotes By Sylvain Reynard

Hands off the Precious, Gollum. — Sylvain Reynard