Elizabeth Berg Quotes

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

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• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Water
  • Cool

• The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Action
  • Growth
  • Balance

• There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Risk
  • Unknown

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Writing
  • Grandma
  • Visiting

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Silly

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Look
  • Perform

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Trying
  • You
  • Burden

• The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Politics

• Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.

  

  Zendaya
  • Care
  • Cold
  • Warm

• I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Me
  • Down

• Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Teaching
  • Meaning

• A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Up
  • Shut Up

• I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Books
  • Romance

• Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.

  

  William Goldman
  • World
  • Book
  • Tragic

• When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Book