Erica Jong Quotes

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

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• I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • War
  • Feeling

• When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

  

  Bobby Moynihan
  • Sad
  • Drunk

• I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Life
  • Time

• I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Up
  • God
  • She

• We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Tomorrow
  • Gods
  • Touch

• The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong.

  

  Barry Pain
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Pray

• The chandelier suddenly started to sway

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Sway
  • Chandelier

• I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Challenge
  • Film
  • Period

• 'I pledged myself to show you wonders.'I drew her farther from the building. 'I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.'

  

  Gene Wolfe

• People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Potential
  • Measure
  • Full

• There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Websites

• I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

  

  Noel Clarke
  • Choice
  • Work Hard
  • Second

• After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Long
  • Myself

• Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Symbol

• Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression.

  

  Ranveer Brar
  • Musician
  • Himself
  • Writings

• I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Believe
  • Wonderful
  • Expresses

• I am confounded by the failure of this rule to meet either the spirit or letter of the law, ... It is clearly delinquent in protecting all Americans equally from the hazards of mercury.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Law
  • Failure
  • Spirit

• Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Body
  • Changes
  • Self Image

• I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Expresses
  • Lustily