Erica Jong Quotes
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.Erica Jong
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
Aaron Paul -
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland -
People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
H. P. Lovecraft -
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
Harriet Martineau -
I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
Maluma -
Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
Kailash Kher -
To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
Fatos Nano
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I don't want to hear about my death.
Oriana Fallaci -
Leaks are always bad news.
Valerie Plame -
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
Karin Slaughter -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
Wang Jianlin -
God primes the pump of obligation.
A. P. Martinich
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The Cross is not the terrible end of a pious happy life. Instead, it stands at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
Sam Hunt -
When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.
Origen -
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
Andrei Tarkovsky -
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
Erica Jong