Sigalit Hoffman Quotes

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent. ~ Abbie Hoffman

Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets. ~ Alice Hoffman

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective. ~ Reid Hoffman

'Breaking Bad' is one of my favorite shows of all time. ~ Rick Hoffman

One person's religion is another person's cult. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Books became my life, or maybe I should say books became the way I escaped from my life. ~ Beth Hoffman

Loving others means being willing to do things for their benefit more than your own. And sometimes that looks like a Facebook account! ~ Mandy J. Hoffman

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. ~ Alice Hoffman

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

To psychotherapists, I say, don't just leave us abandoned because you think you don't know enough to help us, or because the world doesn't believe in what we went through, or because our trauma is too awful to hear about. ~ Wendy Hoffman

But any creature has life. Man is special and unique among the beasts because we have the ability to reason. I think that is our Divine gift. I feel the Gods are likely angered by any man who refuses to claim the Divine birthright of a rational mind. ~ W.A. Hoffman

He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race. ~ Alice Hoffman

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. ~ Alice Hoffman

They weren't true stories; they were better than that. ~ Alice Hoffman

Making a decision reduces opportunities in the short run, but increases opportunities in the long run. To move forward in your career, you have to commit to specific opportunities as part of an iterative plan, despite doubt and despite inconvenience. ~ Reid Hoffman

I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn't lost myself as well ~ Alice Hoffman

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future. ~ Alice Hoffman

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live, ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby? ~ Dustin Hoffman

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything. ~ Alice Hoffman

She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there. ~ Alice Hoffman

One day you'll do something, see something or get an idea that seems to pop up from nowhere. And you'll feel a kind of stirring- like a warm flicker inside your chest. When that happens, whatever you do, don't ignore it. Open your mind and explore the idea. Fan your flame. ~ Beth Hoffman

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Buddy had taken to Gillian in a major way. He thumped his leg, the way rabbits in love always do. He paid no attention to her frown, or the fact that she waved her hands at him, as if he were a cat to be shooed away. He trailed behind her into the living room. When Gillian stopped, Buddy sat down on the rug and looked up at her.
"You quit this right now," Gillian said.
She wagged her finger and glared at him, but Buddy stayed where he was. He had big brown eyes that were rimmed with pink. He looked serious and dignified, even when he washed his paws with his tongue. ~ Alice Hoffman

Perhaps in the cold my heart would freeze and I would care nothing for those I was forced to abandon. ~ Alice Hoffman

Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war. ~ Louise Penny

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything. ~ Alice Hoffman

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. ~ Abbie Hoffman

They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is out of control, when they climb out their windows and drink underage and break every rule, but you will love them in a way you had not thought possible before, no matter who they turn out to be. ~ Alice Hoffman

When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night. ~ Alice Hoffman

There are two early "Holocaust" tales from the Talmud. Gittin 57b claums that four billion Jews were killed by the Romans in the city of Bethar. Gitting 58a claims that 16 million Jewish children were wrapped in scrolls and burned alive by the Romans.

-- Judaism's Strange Gods. page 51 ~ Michael A. Hoffman II

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one. ~ Abbie Hoffman

The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex you if you did her wrong, and from her aunts, who might boil up garden toads and slip them into your stew, and from her mother, who was so angry and protective she might just freeze you in time, ensuring that you were forever trapped on the green grass at the age of ten or eleven. ~ Alice Hoffman

I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. ~ Alice Hoffman

Actors are investigators. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls came to hunt. The sky was now the color Elv liked best - a tender dark blue, falling to earth like ashes. ~ Alice Hoffman