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

• 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

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

  

  Leroy Hood

• When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • Beach
  • Volleyball

• It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• I've done a lot of shows over a long time, and I've lost my voice on plays before, and it's because I've been thinking closely about what I'm doing with my voice. Babies can scream all day and never lose their voice because they just mean it. As long as you mean it, then it carries you through. It's do it or don't.

  

  Jamie Parker
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Children
  • Author

• Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Painting

• Jealousy knows more than truth does.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • More
  • Jealousy

• I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

  

  Bob Menendez
  • America

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

  

  Erica Jong
  • Jealousy