L.K. Samuels Quotes

Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.

Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

Sports is all about money.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.

Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Government succeeds by failing.

Do not throw me out. Please.

Don't even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.

Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother.

Why won’t you help me?
You have to able to manage on your own.

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…

Eva: I don't want any tea.
Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.

Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake..

You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them.

Difficulty is only a matter of the willingness to do.

Out of ten people that desire a girl, five people are actually willing to do something to win her heart and from this five, one already has the girl while the other has to fight to win her heart.

Please tell me the truth about yourself.

An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.

Know your number. If you don’t know it you might forget who you are.

I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!

We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.

I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.