Anne Roiphe Quotes

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • House
  • Energy
  • Mom

• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

  

  Irving Penn
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Just

• I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Family
  • Love
  • House

• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Photographer

• I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Clothes

• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Support

• It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • House
  • Free
  • Advice

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Work
  • Book
  • House

• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Doing

• As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • House
  • Want
  • Know

• British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Women
  • American
  • Fun

• My dad was so much fun growing up.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Growing

• 'Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never be as much fun as the show.

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Unique

• Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Fun
  • Freedom
  • Interesting

• When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

  

  David Johansen
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Things
  • Happens
  • Accepting

• Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Fun
  • House
  • Mirror