Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes

You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.

Roz Chast

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• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Book
  • Mother

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
  • Girl

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Very
  • Relationships

• Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Try
  • Champions

• I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Someone

• My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Dad

• Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Death
  • Me
  • Course

• Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Emotional
  • Easy
  • Hard

• Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Consciousness

• Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Environment
  • Generation
  • Scientists

• I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Song
  • Mean
  • Fly

• You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

  

  John Travolta
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  

  John Travolta
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Courage
  • Obstacles

• I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Giving
  • Fashion
  • Designer

• One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Believe
  • Murders

• I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Trying
  • President
  • States

• There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, "My God, my God!"

  

  William Mountford
  • Feelings
  • Spirit
  • Praying

• You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Happens
  • Praying
  • Bed