Philip Roth Quotes

The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

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• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Book
  • Question
  • Chance

• Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Science
  • Powerful

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Education

• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  

  Tablo
  • Feelings
  • Daughter
  • Price

• Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Different
  • Country
  • True

• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Night
  • Child

• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • You
  • Player
  • Stock

• It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Want

• I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Different
  • Production
  • Finite

• The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Life
  • Picture
  • End

• She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Home
  • She
  • Free

• Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Words

• Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Death
  • Past

• Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted, I bought them for you Graceless lady, you know who I am You know I can't let you slide through my hands Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Childhood

• VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

  

  Aleatha Romig
  • Desire
  • Stories
  • Ends

• I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • Time
  • Great
  • Truth

• How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

  

  Brian Greene
  • Great
  • Universe

• Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.

  

  John Carter
  • Political
  • Party
  • Red

• When I was a little kid, I was chunky. My mother would always joke she would have to get me husky jeans for larger kids. My wife reminds me sometimes, if I overdo it with chocolate chip cookies, that I will have to wear husky pants again.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Mother
  • Joke
  • Husky jeans

• The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

  

  Philip Roth