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Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: ukrainian
Birth: July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970

Topics

Blessing Memory Blessed World Enjoy

If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time Reborn' is his latest nonfiction book, and it's an absolutely compelling read. It's worth the time.

Robert J. Sawyer

Nature Time Writing Book Worth You

Don't be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.

Hands You Dirt Afraid Buy Get

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Robert B. Parker

Learning Reading Think Achieve Say

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

Father Me Media Left Something

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

People Want Whatever Assume Going

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

Jonathan Miller

Window Present Virtue Extraordinary

Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

Action You Mean Over Heroes See

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.

Time Culture School Solitude Loved

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

Time Fun Space World Think Enough

Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.

Mordicai Gerstein

Life Art Imagination Adventure Me

I don't see myself in politics at 51. I definitely want to do something else.

Myself Politics Want See Something

I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.

Kind Guy Optimistic Relatively

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