Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

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• The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Good Thing
  • Storage

• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Looking

• Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Sea
  • Green

• Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Like
  • Born
  • Almost

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Government
  • Financial

• My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Hurt

• I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Son

• My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • College
  • Teaching
  • Aim

• There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Rules

• And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• HuhI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. OohI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. I can't turn you loose to nobodyI love you baby, yes I do. Give shakin' mama, I told ya. I'm in love with only you. Gotta Baby do it baby why don't yaI'll give ya everything you want.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Why
  • Baby

• Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search-for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Identity

• I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Life

• Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Comedy

• Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.

  

  Constance Wu
  • People
  • Service

• Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Trying

• Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

  

  John Naisbitt

• You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Important
  • Character
  • Unimportant

• I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Trying
  • Existed