My ambition really was,
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. Elie Wiesel
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My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. Elie Wiesel
[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had. Elie Wiesel
My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these … Read more
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun! Edward Young
It’s bizarre to me that you can have political commentators, sports commentators, weather commentators, but with medicine, people go, “You can’t do that.” Drew Pinsky
I’ve chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I’m not sorry that it didn’t, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do … Read more
It’s headed away by John Clark, using his head. Derek Rae
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist. Dennis Prager
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. Dee Dee Myers
The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it’s a pity that more of them aren’t gay, because of the greater compassion they could bring to the task, it might endear him to liberal Catholic commentators , but it would make him … Read more