Erica Jong Quotes

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Erica Jong

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• I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • You
  • Wine

• Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Voice
  • Going
  • Ice

• Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Work
  • Done
  • Boring

• Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Sometimes
  • Eye
  • Forget

• It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Mortal
  • Despairing

• I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • House
  • Parents

• If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Black
  • Light
  • Wonder

• A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Effort

• I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

  

  Larry Wall

• We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Peace

• There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Good
  • Art
  • Enemy

• Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Mind
  • Education

• The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Important
  • Long
  • Family

• You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • People
  • Live
  • She

• I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

  

  Chris Milk
  • Trying
  • Technology

• Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

  

  Leroy Hood

• If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Taken

• Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. … those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Time
  • Men
  • Faith

• So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed.So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • She
  • Die
  • Desire

• Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.

  

  William Blake
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Silent

• Sweet are the uses of adversity

  

  William Shakespeare
  • inspirational
  • Sweet
  • Adversity

• A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Opinion
  • Missing
  • Wrong

• The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Jealousy