Erica Jong Quotes

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

Erica Jong

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• It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Brain

• I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Always
  • Bigger
  • Goodbye

• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Car

• If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

  

  Val McDermid
  • You
  • Goodbye
  • Prizes

• Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Boy

• The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Important
  • Words
  • Goodbye

• When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Party

• Never say goodbye, You say tomorrow's another day, All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you, The kind that keeps me up all night. So hold me tight till the room is light And tell me that it's all right.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Today
  • Night

• I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Happy
  • Peace
  • Mom

• Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Family
  • America
  • Happy

• I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

  

  Alexi Giannoulias
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Past

• I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Family
  • Remember
  • Father

• I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

  

  Don Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Spiritual
  • Listening
  • Emotional

• It was hard saying goodbye to the 'iCarly' family just because we have become such a family, but I do get to see them all the time, and I stay in touch with them.

  

  Jerry Trainor
  • Time
  • Family
  • Goodbye

• Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Long
  • Goodbye

• The last thing I say on most phone calls is not, 'Goodbye,' but, 'Thank you.'

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Goodbye

• Thank you for listening. Thank you for abiding me. And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I bid you goodbye and take my leave.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Children
  • Listening
  • Goodbye

• Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Ends
  • Goodbye

• To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its springs deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • Joy
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I like to keep a high pace, violent fight. I don't like to waste time, and I don't like to go to the judges. I feel like I've fought long enough where I can adapt to just about any situation.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Time
  • Long
  • High

• We never take this stuff for granted. The longer we're out here, too, in a lot of ways, the more we appreciate it, because we see so many great acts who're out here with us, and you realize how steep the competition really is. So, this win is even better 'cause it says people are still digging what we're doing. We're still keeping it fresh and people are into it.

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
  • People
  • Win
  • Competition

• Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Goodbye