Yenta Quotes

If you two yentas are finished discussing Claire’s rabid who-ha, me and the boys would like to eat sometime this century." "You and 'the boys?' You just met them today. Does the Ya Ya Brotherhood already have a secret handshake and a password?" Liz joked.

Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)

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physically intimidating-even terrifying — a bully, a yenta,

Oh God. I had a feeling when I hired this woman that she was going to be a bit of a yenta.

These two don’t need a yenta for Theo. They are yentas.

nearing eighty, a real yenta, always up for a chat and a drink.

appointment with the East Side Yenta.” “Richard, you are one of, if not the most eligible bachelors in New York City. Why in the world do you need the help of some old Jewish matchmaker? You’re not even Jewish!” he added. “For God’s sake, Spencer, you don’t have to be Jewish to use a matchmaker.

She leaned against the wall and looked down at him, shaking her head. “Out in all hours and all weather, and he comes home to nothing!” Joshua shrugged. He had a good idea where this was going. “So where’s Mrs. Doctor? You need to get married!

Jenny is so, so good at her job, can match a patron and an artist like some kind of cultural yenta.

John didn’t score his first Number One hit until 1974, the fourth Beatle to reach this milestone (Ringo beat him twice), but he got over with “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” with a big assist from Elton John. It’s not a famous song anymore, for the understandable reason that the final line is “Don’t need a gun to blow your mind.” After December 1980, “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” dropped off the radio and hasn’t been heard since. But the most shocking thing isn’t the gun line—it’s the lush pop feel. The song it really resembles is the Wings hit “Listen to What the Man Said,” with the same yacht-rock studio sheen. Both serve love-is-the-answer platitudes, though attractively warmhearted ones: “Whatever gets you to the light, ’sall right” vs. “I don’t know but I think love is fine.” Both hit Number One, for just one week. John’s sax solo is Bobby Keys, Paul’s is Tom Scott, though they could have traded places without anyone noticing. Yet I loved both songs as a boy, and still do—Elton, always the kindliest-sounding of rock megastars, sings on John’s hit, and sounds like the guiding spirit of Paul’s, as if he’s a yenta nudging them together.