#sm

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

#army #clearly #even #glass #home

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#criticism #i #only #the only thing #thing

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. ↗

— Philip Roth

#decide #dim #fiction #i #i write

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. ↗

— Tim Roth

#after #again #analyze #because #british

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential. ↗

— Nathan Meyer Rothschild

#essential #like #mechanism #part #watch

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#certain #death #face #give #off

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#growing #growing up #necessarily #quantify #small

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#false #feeling #good #guides #man

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. ↗

— Karl Rove

#backlash #branch #clay #code #constitution

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me. ↗

— Karl Rove

#dumb #gets #lose #me #president