Famous quotes containing the words joseph epstein, joseph and/or epstein:
“I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)
“There’s nothing as real as money.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz, U.S. director, screenwriter. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. “Cicero” (James Mason)
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
—Julius J. Epstein (1909–1952)