Erica Jong Quotes

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Erica Jong

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• If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Discipline
  • Plan
  • Execution

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Always
  • Gold

• When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Universe

• If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Stronger

• Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Heart
  • Poetry
  • Graffiti

• I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • True

• It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Challenge
  • Attact

• How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Grass
  • Germans
  • Revolt

• There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Future
  • Comics
  • Bonfire

• I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

  

  Holliday Grainger
  • Believe
  • Used
  • Hearing

• The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Lives
  • Great Men
  • Phillosophies