Erica Jong Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
Kara Swisher -
I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
Edith Pearlman -
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson -
I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
Verite -
I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
Vanity -
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Patricia Highsmith
-
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
Walter Kerr -
'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
Hannibal Buress -
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar Wilde -
I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
Iggy Azalea -
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Dag Hammarskjold -
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Van Morrison
-
With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach -
Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
Yoweri Museveni -
You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.
Eminem -
I have met people on the subway who have told me the most profound stories, and I am convinced we all have something to teach each other if we just slow down long enough to hear the message.
Amanda de Cadenet
-
The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
Sam Jaeger -
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette -
Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.
Emil Cioran -
The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.
Dennis Washington -
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong