Eli Roth Quotes

'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

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• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Work
  • Television
  • Stand

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Lost

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Magic
  • Must
  • Daylight

• I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Sexy
  • Classy

• Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Game
  • Want
  • Change

• The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Men
  • May
  • Words

• My education was very tough.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Education
  • Very
  • Tough

• But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • People
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• I'm not hard to get along with.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Hard
  • Get
  • Along

• Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Information

• Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Fate

• I think I'm the most private out of my family.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Family

• I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Different
  • School
  • Me

• My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Weird

• 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Forever
  • Weird