On her abortion, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970)
Source: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
“Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”
Source: The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999), p. 28
“Jack: When they laugh at one of my jokes… it just gets me right here. [Puts hand on heart]”
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
Quoted in Käthe Kollwitz: Graphics, Posters, Drawings (1981) by Renate Hinz
Other Quotes
Context: My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.
Reported in Memoirs of Theophilus Parsons (1859). Ames is reported to have said this while opposing Parsons as counsel in a legal case.
“All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?”
After visiting Russia, to the pro-Leninist sentiment in the global left.
Attributed
Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, (2009)
Context: If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting a high wall. The high wall is the system which forces us to do the things we would not ordinarily see fit to do as individuals... We are all human beings, individuals, fragile eggs. We have no hope against the wall: it's too high, too dark, too cold. To fight the wall, we must join our souls together for warmth, strength. We must not let the system control us -- create who we are. It is we who created the system.
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter
