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

• I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of different purposes. First and foremost, they were a tool which initially was seen as being useful in managing the bank's own risk management challenges.

  

  Blythe Masters
  • Different
  • Important
  • Risk

• Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Thinking
  • Practice
  • Angry

• I think what is happening is that Houthis and the Iranians have common interests, but there's very little good journalism that's been done to uncover the true extent of that relationship between the Houthis and Iran. But, obviously, I do think that they - they benefit from the rhetoric of the Houthis on the ground. But, also, they do have a connection, but not to the extent that is being covered in the media at the moment by describing them as a Shia militia backed by Iran. I think that's an overstatement.

  

  Safa Al Ahmad
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Common

• I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

  

  Dan Wells
  • Thinking
  • Firsts
  • Wanted

• 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