Erica Jong Quotes

We write poems as leaves give oxygen - so we can breathe.

Erica Jong

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• Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

  

  Banks
  • Live
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Change

• COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Air
  • Breathe

• When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Working
  • Breathe

• I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Party
  • Green
  • Oxygen

• I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Confidence
  • Breathe

• I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • May
  • Character
  • Think

• The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Art
  • Age
  • City

• Every marathon starts with that first mile. But somewhere around mile 16 or 18 - trust me on this - your feet are killing you, you're not sure you can breathe anymore, your mind is frazzled, your body wracked with pain, and all you want to do is stop.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Mind
  • Stop
  • Pain

• I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Air
  • Breathe
  • Italian

• If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.

  

  Betty White
  • Responsibility
  • Animal
  • Kindness

• I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Breathe

• I know if you get mad, and in a world with all the competitors I've been around in my life, either from fighting or wrestling or other sports, you have to learn to breathe.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Life
  • World
  • Fighting

• When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you're playing into your real life and kind of become that thing.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Eyes

• Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Working
  • Lyrics
  • Poems

• Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Pain
  • Thought

• I fell in love with Jesus, and I'm still in love. Amen!

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Jesus

• I mean business about standing with President Trump to make America great again.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• ...no matter what any poet did, the poems would constitute screens on which readers could project their own desperate belief in the possibility of poetic experience, whatever that might be, or afford them the opportunity to mourn its impossibility.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Opportunity
  • Belief
  • Readers

• We write poems as leaves give oxygen - so we can breathe.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Breathe
  • Poems
  • Oxygen