Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1977

Topics

WorkRelationshipHistoryPrayer

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

John Caudwell

WorkFatherMoneyChildhoodOut

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

John T. Flynn

HandsWillFascismComeAuthentic

We always did our own mixing.

Stephen Malkmus

AlwaysOwnOurDidMixing

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Steven Pinker

ChangePowerAcceptancePeopleWorld

My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.

Slash

GuitarRockLeadRollFanHuge

I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work in Phnom Penh, and thus left with her driver and translator early each morning and returned later each night, while I took care of our firstborn son, who was 2 at the time.

Michael Paterniti

WorkChangeMorningSonTimeWife

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Loren Eiseley

NatureFlowerWithoutStarCould

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

Josh Trank

GoodExperienceYouBadWrongNeed

When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there.

Chris Cornell

MusicPeopleYouFeelingOutGet

Hollywood, they love everything, but they move like molasses. They'll option anything - the worst idea in the world will get optioned just because they want to keep the other person from getting that idea.

Brian Azzarello

LoveWorldPersonJust BecauseWant

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

Antoinette Perry

ChildrenChildMeSayWhyBecome

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.

Asif Kapadia

LongRightSomethingGoingGet

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