(84 quotes found)
“From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.”
Israel Shenker
“Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.”
Camille Paglia
“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.”
Calvin Trillin
“There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.”
“We need to become more aware of how rapidly the definitions of what it means to be Jewish are changing. The philanthropic community must not shy away from confronting the difficult issues of identity and continuity these transformations raise.”
Mark Charendoff
“It was more important to me to understand what it's like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.”
Ryan Gosling
“The bad boy tweaking the nose of the Establishment [with] the countenance of a Jewish leprechaun.”
Ervin S. Duggan
“The dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust. It was the most efficient mass killings since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Philip Gourevitch
“I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.”
Billy Crystal
“When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.”
David Kirk
