Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Basketball

• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan’s shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan’s cities and towns.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Family
  • Culture

• The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Friends
  • History

• That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Drinking

• In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People
  • Mad

• My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns - perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Why
  • House
  • Parents

• Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Crazy

• I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield

• One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Real
  • Judge

• I like cooking the biggest steaks. It cooks nice and evenly when it's that thick, and you're not eating the whole thing yourself, which is nice. You get to share that with a companion.

  

  April Bloomfield
  • Nice
  • Cooking

• Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Time
  • Control
  • Single

• Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Time
  • Death

• I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Good
  • Chinese

• From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Age
  • Wife
  • Teacher

• It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

  

  James Turrell
  • People

• I was Jenny in 'Jenny and the School for Cats' when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver Twist,' and that was the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • School
  • Fun

• It's important for me to highlight my views for veterans who've fought for America and at the same time don't have anything to show for it. It's kind of dear to me.

  

  2 Chainz
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Shows

• And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.

  

  Ezra Levant
  • Goal
  • Police
  • Choice

• In the black sky no star is seen, somewhere in ambush lurks the Angel of Death, but the spices tongues of the masqueraders are loose and shameless A shout: 'Make way for the hero!' Ah yes. Displacing the tall one, he will step forth now without fail and sing to us about holy vengeance...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Death
  • Black
  • Star

• God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Soul
  • Helping
  • Aids

• I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Shameless