Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I play volleyball on the beach. It's a great way to work out and have fun.

Jessica Sanchez

WorkGreatBeachFunHave FunPlay

My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

Jessica Valenti

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In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.

Jeremy Stoppelman

ServiceBeginningFunPeopleThink

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

Amor Towles

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I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.

Tom Osborne

GoodTimeMeHouseOutTried

I graduated from Kellogg. I studied social enterprise.

Roshni Nadar

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Louis E. Boone

WorkTimeI AmManagementI Can

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Jason Mraz

MeYouWebsiteStartedWouldSend

If I were in charge of the Olympics, I would probably try to put something for the javelin guy to aim at. Not just length, but see if you could spear something.

Jay Chandrasekhar

YouAimTrySeeGuySomething

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

Dick Van Patten

LoveLiveFoodPeopleNowWill

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

Dove Cameron

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Denis Diderot

FreedomManKingFreeWillNever

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