Erica Jong Quotes

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

Erica Jong

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• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Girl
  • Amazing
  • Myself

• Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • May
  • Together
  • Man

• There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• 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
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Life
  • Time
  • Relationship

• My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Father
  • Myself

• The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Rights
  • Second

• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Years
  • Hero
  • Many

• It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • World
  • Men
  • Short

• And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Sad
  • Surprise

• History will treat me right.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Right
  • Treat

• Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Like
  • Look
  • Oil

• I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Me
  • Language

• Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Great
  • Music
  • Come

• Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fall

• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tolerance
  • Steps

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.

  

  James Lankford
  • Believe

• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Poetry
  • Birth
  • Loneliness