Erica Jong Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
-
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
-
With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
-
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
-
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
-
Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
-
I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
-
Winning my first UFC fight by a finish, I've never felt so accomplished in my life.
-
It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
-
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
-
I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
-
My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
-
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
-
Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
-
Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
-
I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
-
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
-
That is why I say the nation needs a leader. Dr. Manmohan Singh has not even visited all the states in the five years of his prime ministership, while Advaniji is a leader who has, at some point in time, spent a night in our 400 districts.
-
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
-
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
-
I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
-
The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
-
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
-
A baby's mother also needs a mother.
