Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.
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Touring is one of my favorite things about what I get to do.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
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I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
