Philip Roth Quotes

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

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• I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Hair
  • Kid
  • Tough

• I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Movies

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Political
  • Politics
  • See

• I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Best

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Good
  • Church
  • Myself

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Small
  • inspirational

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Proud
  • Military
  • Thought

• A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • Man
  • Special

• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
  • See
  • Eat

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• The precondition to freedom is security.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Freedom
  • Security

• Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

  

  Ann Romney
  • Country
  • Support

• I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Problem
  • Climate Change
  • Energy police

• When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Money
  • Power
  • Success

• And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Work
  • Real

• Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Period