Erica Jong Quotes

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

Erica Jong

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• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Together
  • Profit

• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Strong
  • Culture

• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  

  Sai Baba
  • Water
  • Sun
  • Sky

• Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Movie
  • Books
  • Television

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fun
  • Designer
  • Costume

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Old

• The best career advice I've gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Career
  • Moving
  • Advice

• The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • World

• The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • World
  • Passion
  • Madness

• When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Soul
  • Lying

• Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.

  

  Bobby Hull
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Hockey

• What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Writing
  • Lonely