Erica Jong Quotes

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Erica Jong

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• I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • You
  • Never
  • Model

• I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Nature

• I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Direction

• I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Loved

• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Learn
  • Legacy

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • College
  • Fashion

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Food
  • Safety

• In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Challenge

• Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Important
  • Most
  • Statue

• With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• I put Compton on the map.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Put
  • Map

• I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Fashion
  • Did
  • Outsider

• In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • You
  • Fighting

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• With all this bulk there's nothing lost in Og,For every inch that is not fool is rogue :A monstrous mass of fuul corrupted matter,As all the devils had spew'd to make the baiter.When wine has given him courage to blaspheme,He curses God, but God before curst him ;And, if man could have reason, none has more.That made his paunch so rich, and him so poor.

  

  John Dryden
  • God
  • Lost
  • Courage

• Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Power
  • Together
  • Mean

• Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Writers
  • Reporters
  • Prophets

• You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Wisdom
  • Human
  • Fool