Erica Jong Quotes
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.Erica Jong
Quotes to Explore
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
Sam Graves -
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Natasha Trethewey -
About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
Takeru Kobayashi -
Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
Venus Williams -
There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
Finn Jones
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
Aaron Sorkin -
Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
Owen Hart -
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Kate Grenville -
The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
Nate Holland -
People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
Lamar Odom
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
Lapo Elkann -
So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
Pat Boone -
I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
G-Eazy -
If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
Zac Brown Band -
There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard -
So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
Fay Wray
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Leslie Fiedler -
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Carl von Clausewitz -
These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.
Brian Azzarello -
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
Avi -
It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.
Antony Gormley -
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
Erica Jong