Chaim Potok Quotes

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Chaim Potok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002

Topics

CreativityPeopleThinkSeriousOwn

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

Joanna Lumley

SpaceConstructionLearnSkinNASA

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Meghan O'Rourke

LifeWorkIdeasMy LifeEnoughTry

I definitely love getting a massage or going to a spa.

Max Aaron

LoveMassageGoingGetting

The fear that ultimately leads to hate is something we need to change, and I want to do whatever I can to make the world a better place.

Matt Hardy

ChangeFearHateWorldBetterI Can

I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.

Angelique Kerber

PracticeGymPlayGoThreeMovement

Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any person from East Germany... you will never hear somebody say, 'The Stasi never bothered me because I didn't have anything to hide.' That's not a thing that people say.

Trevor Paglen

PeopleMeSocietyToolsYouHide

Donald Trump can take his message directly to the people via rallies and addresses carried over social media. I'd call them updated versions of Roosevelt's fireside chats, but a portion of my younger readership doesn't even know what a radio is thanks to a Democrat-run education system.

Milo Yiannopoulos

EducationSocial MediaPeopleMedia

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Janet Weiss

YourselfBe YourselfFeelYouPlay

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

AnimalsHumanBeingUsAwareMakes

My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.

Johnny Gimble

VacationWeekRailroadCottonSeven

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

Dominic Monaghan

MeAliveWayHumanEatAnything

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Boothe Luce

HomeEndCharityCensorshipBegin

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