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

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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
  • Business
  • Political
  • Small

• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• 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
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• 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
  • Blue
  • Said
  • Nobody

• 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
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Thought

• The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Done
  • Night
  • Action

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• 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
  • People
  • Game
  • Play

• I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • American
  • Catholic
  • Italian

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Daughters
  • Five

• I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence.

  

  James Bobin

• When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor. A movie like Caddyshack, I can walk on a golf course and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It's like, 'Fella, I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don't remember how it goes'. But I'm charmed by it. I'm not like, 'Hey, knock it off'. It's kind of cool.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Script

• People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Drama
  • Partnerships

• Miramax wanted the buzz to spread, but slowly, so people would be clamoring for it, ... Chicago.

  

  Neil Meron
  • People
  • Chicago
  • Buzz

• The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria , and a danger for Iran at this point.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Real
  • Crazy

• Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • War
  • Reason