Philip Roth Quotes

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth

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• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Experience
  • True
  • Giving

• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • You

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Real
  • Love
  • Experience

• Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Experience
  • American
  • Design

• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Doing

• Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • Experience
  • America

• We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Look

• Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Think
  • Past
  • Old

• We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Past
  • Marriage
  • Same

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Experience
  • House
  • Research

• I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • School
  • Experience
  • History

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Man
  • Year
  • Jazz

• Throughout every presidency since the heist of our country from indigenous peoples, the black American experience has been exceptional in its discomfort. And no chief executive of this great nation has, in earnest, developed a unique plan to remedy that discomfort.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Great
  • Country
  • Experience

• For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Past
  • Culture

• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Me
  • Film

• I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • Great
  • House
  • Brother

• Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Experience
  • Past
  • Imagination