Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

Roz Chast

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• I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Me
  • Die

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• We all get self-centered.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Get
  • Self-centered

• I love doing serious movies for adults.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Movies

• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Failure
  • Most

• We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Teach
  • Lot
  • Other

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Trouble

• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Kids
  • Grunge

• You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

  

  Eric Davis

• If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Democracy
  • Trump
  • Nasty

• You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  

  Andrew Denton
  • Work
  • Comedy

• Daria Werbowy is my beauty icon.

  

  Anna Ewers

• I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

  

  James Broughton
  • Art
  • Passion

• The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • Present
  • Vulcanism

• I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Phone
  • iPad

• The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Death

• He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Power

• I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Opinion

• I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Mean