Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

Joyce Carol Oates

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• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Never
  • Devil
  • Catholic

• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Great
  • Husband
  • Devil

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Create
  • Dangerous

• Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Dangerous
  • Patriotism

• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Play
  • Dangerous
  • Boyfriend

• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Dangerous
  • Copy

• I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Life
  • Game
  • Hate

• Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Different
  • English
  • Language

• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness

• We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Live
  • May

• 'Now you understand,' Rarm said to me. 'It was the last cut against yourself to become convinced of your own hideousness. You held to it and nurtured it, and even identified with the devil goddess of Orash in your determination to be accursed. And it never occurred to you that perhaps you saw a false image under the mountain.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mountain
  • Devil
  • Determination

• Guard thee from the power of evil; Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Power
  • Trust
  • Evil

• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Health
  • Devil

• I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Language
  • Dangerous
  • Dubious

• Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Dangerous

• For me, the key question is what's behind the dangerous idea. If it's simply to stir things up and appear radical, I'm not interested. But if it's done with a quest to learn, evolve, and improve the quality of life for people everywhere, I'm on board.

  

  David Livermore
  • People
  • Quality
  • Dangerous

• I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

  

  John Cho

• David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.

  

  Jane Birkin

• Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

  

  Joyce Carol Oates
  • Devil
  • Dangerous
  • Loneliness