Erica Jong Quotes
Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!Erica Jong
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies -
I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
Nat King Cole -
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
The bad boy: always more fun.
Ian McShane -
I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
Yani Tseng
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
Taylor Lautner -
The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
Aaron Neville -
As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.
Samuel Adams -
Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
Walt Kelly -
She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
P. G. Wodehouse -
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
Walter Lippmann
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Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
Edward Heath -
Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds
Andy Partridge -
'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
Agatha Christie -
I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.
Andie MacDowell -
As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.
Phil Ochs -
Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
Geoffrey Chaucer -
Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
Erica Jong