Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Heckerling

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Calvin Trillin

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

Avigdor Lieberman

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

S. Ansky

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

Lesley Ann Warren

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Noam Chomsky

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.

Romain Gary

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Michael Sandel

It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Kim Fields

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.

Tracy Letts

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they've seen me onstage so much.

Britney Spears

it is not the one I wore onstage during the 'Baby One More Time' performance.'

Michael Ball

I was just proud to be onstage with her. It's just proper old-school theatrical heart.

Judy Gold

When I got a part in 'All American Girl,' in 1994, I remember thinking, 'Now I have a series, I'm not going to need to do standup,' but every night I'd go out afterward and get onstage somewhere.

Ricky Martin

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

Linda Perry

I'm scared of the interviews, ... I'm scared of having to get up onstage again. I'm scared of the critique. I'm scared right now of doing this again. But that's why I have to do it, I think.

Scott Weiland

Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.

David Bowie

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Jacqueline McKenzie

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

John Doran

They are terrified they will make a mistake,

Saint Teresa of Avila

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Danny Pintauro

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

Randy Alcorn

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Rhianna Pratchett

Showing a videogame character terrified and scared is something that's not really done that much.

Stanley Elkin

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

Farrah Fawcett

I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Lucy Punch

I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.

Duggar Baucom

We were (5-2) with Willie in the lineup.

Lee Brice

Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.

David Wright

That's one thing I really appreciated. Willie had my back.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Rita Ora

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Jason Calacanis

After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Eddy Curry

That's just how things happened. I think in the long run, New York is going to come out on top.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Adam Mansbach

The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.