Zangwill Modern Quotes & Sayings

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations. — Oscar Wilde

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. — Ambrose Bierce

Educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression. — Po Bronson

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. — David Wilkerson

Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning. — Arthur Koestler

No one else has ever meant what you do to me. Please, just ... just, come back with me and stay. For good. — Kylie Scott

I've been broke even oftener than I've been wealthy. Of the two, being broke is more interesting, as a man who doesn't know where his next meal is coming from is never bored. He may be angry or several other things - but not bored. His predicament sharpens his thoughts, spurs him into action, adds zest to his life, whether he knows it or not. — Robert A. Heinlein

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary. — Mahatma Gandhi

We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's. — Rupert Grint

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit. — Israel Zangwill

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war. — Ninon De L'Enclos

My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful. — Brian Blessed

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. — Christopher Hampton

Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year's worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a very good teacher will learn a year and a half's worth of material. That difference amounts to a year's worth of learning in a single year. Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a bad school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher. — Malcolm Gladwell