Průpovídky od našeho stolu (pouze anglicky)/Yarnton Quote List (English only)
٠ Today in the morning I sat down to my computer determined to work on my thesis. The only thing I had in the evening was a shopping list for the Sainsbury’s. (Zosia)
٠ Clearly, God was speaking to me in Hebrew. (Maja)
٠ -Where are the Acts of the Apostles? (Julia) -You might check Who is Who in Israel. (Maja)
٠ Vltava! This river flows through my country! (Tereza on listening to Classic FM)
٠ Zip me up! (Lena getting ready for her Scottish ball)
٠ It’s a different kind of Roy. (Tereza)
٠ If I don’t wake up, someone please wake me. (Shari)
٠ She is like Tito – benevolent, but a dictator. (Maja)
٠ That would not be good! Shari has spoken. (Shari)
٠ You look troubled. (Tereza before the Hebrew collections to the others)
٠ Just as I expected – everything I’d learnt for the exam was completely futile. (Tereza after the Hebrew collections)
٠ But Shari is a different kind of hardcore. (Maja commenting on Shari’s observance)
٠ Praise the Lord. (Maja’s response to the prospect of reading Shari’s paper on Hallel.)
٠ I felt so British and romantic. (Christoph waxing lyrical on the beauty of moonlit Christchurch quad…while on the shopping minibus)
٠ Lena didn’t have a chart. And Tereza didn’t have a chart…And I didn’t have a chart. (Maja commenting on her preparatory reading for Rise of Normative Judaism)
٠ The Shabbes Goy: The flexibility of Halakha. (A title of a book in the Muller Library)
٠ In one word? No! In two words? Definitely not! (Avi’s answer to an invitation for a Kosher Chanukah party)
٠ And yesterday somebody’s egg saved my life. (Maja commenting on the system of sharing food in our kitchen)
٠ Christoph has very nice pyjamas. (Tereza after coming back from Richardo on a Friday night)
٠ That’s a quarter-life crisis. (Esther during a discussion about the value of an MSt degree)
٠ You milk a cow…or maybe it was a goat. (Shari)
٠ - Is the public bus far? - More or less. Less than more. (Jeff)
٠ He was a rabbi. Well, they are all rabbis. (Jeff about his performance at a Satmar wedding)
٠ It’s not really Jewish, but it will pass. (Jeff playing a Georgian song on his clarinet)
٠ The other day I wrote down something in the Bodleian and then didn’t dare to look at it for 2 days. (Christoph about his strategy of essay writing)
٠ I haven’t been to the big banana, but I’ve been to the big pineapple. (Esther about her travels around Australia)
٠ - Christoph, I think I’ve lost your vital point. (Maggie, academic writing teacher) - I am afraid…maybe…I’ve lost it too. (Christoph)
٠ I am not familiar with Yiddish literature as much as I should be, but I seem to have noticed a preponderance of trains. Is there any significance to that? (Glenda Abramson to J. Sherman)
٠ - Are you from Israel? - No. (Maja) - Oh, because you looked really familiar. (Anonymous at St.Anthony’s Salsa Bop)
٠ I always feel like that place is trendier than I am. (Shari about an unspecified Jericho café)
٠ They should put him in the Israel Museum, next to the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Tereza on Roy as a unique exponent of a polite Israeli)
٠ Idolatry is Knowledge. Kings is Judges. (Tom)
٠ You can’t outsherman Sherman! (Maja)
٠ I was thinking about it and the Bible is very much like Oxford. To become “something“ you have to do all these things you really don’t want to do. (Tali)
٠ Well, I don’t think the rabbis consulted the Czech translation. (rabbi Salomon commenting on rabbinic understanding of Malachi 2:12 in Shabbat 56a)
٠ Rav and Shmuel…and then it was all down to Darwin…(Rabbi Solomon explaining the rise of authority of the Gemara)
٠ At this point, I am sorry for everybody. (Tereza)
٠ Don’t just do something, stand there! (A title of a poem reminiscent of „Don’t just stand there, do something! - Lena)
٠ By the way – you are Polish! (Tereza to Ola)
٠ This is not Birkat ha-minim yet…but it smells. (Piet)
٠ Well, during his lifetime, he wasn’t a martyr yet. He became one only after he had died. (Piet about Justin Martyr)
٠ There is a footnote downstairs. (Piet trying to lead his students through his handout)
٠ I don’t like it when pieces of naked women are popping out. (Roy on British women’s fashion)
٠ - The problem of Hebrew is that it simply doesn’t have enough letters. (Tereza) - Write to the Academy for Hebrew Language. (Tali)
٠ There seems to be a new trend: to grow fat around your waist and show it! (Lena on British fashion)
٠ No coffee again! Why do we Jews have to suffer all the time? (Avi commenting on the drink supplies in the library)
٠ It’s kosher as long as you don’t drop a goat in it. (Tereza answering Tom’s question about the proper procedure of preparing real English tea)
٠ On a basic level, non-theologians clearly get way more points, but there are some that rise above the circumstances. (Shari)
٠ The clappers of Gay Paris. (Glenda Abramson)
٠ If I wasn't a student of Judaism, I wish I were Diana Krall. (Tereza)
٠ I am just a humble shlepper. (Joanna Weinberg refusing thanks for a delightful library dinner)
٠ - Sit next to somebody you don’t see so often. (Martine) - Then I shoudn’t sit next to the mirror. (Avi)
٠ If you copy one work, it’s called plagiarism. If you copy many, it is called research. (Avi)