Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes

I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.

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• The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Story
  • Generation
  • Jews

• Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • School
  • College
  • Study

• By sticking to my principles and what I firmly believe in - I always have my own attitude towards everything in life. I wish to create trends rather than follow them. My daily routine at the moment is really just a combination of work and family.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first, and I just cannot uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Children
  • Family
  • Heart

• Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Piano

• Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feeling
  • Fear
  • Courage

• In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • World
  • Growing
  • Problem

• Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• President Bush said he didn't want to renew the Assault Weapons Ban because it might 'infringe on hunters' rights'. Who needs an AK-47 machine gun to go hunting? Let me tell you guys something... If it takes you 500 rounds to bring down a deer, I don't want you going to the bathroom in MY house!

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • House
  • Gun
  • Hunting

• There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Men
  • Children

• As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,

  

  Kabir
  • Long
  • Die
  • Teacher

• We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • City
  • Cities

• Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • America
  • France
  • Diplomats

• I don't know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that's a dangerous thing.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Money
  • American
  • Shows

• I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Damnation

• I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.

  

  Xabi Alonso

• He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Looks
  • Memorable

• I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Laughing
  • Draws