Filippe Roth Quotes & Sayings

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. — John Podhoretz

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable. — Thomas Jefferson

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids. — Brian K. Vaughan

She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not really a nerd: I only aspire to be one. Because of the high-school-dropout thing, I'm a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life. So I wear the name as a badge of honor. That someday I may not totally bore some really smart people. The question is: How do you find smart people? — Gillian Flynn

People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier. — Anna Paquin

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind. — Joseph Brodsky

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. — Mignon McLaughlin

Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory. — Genevieve Gerard

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one. — Clive James

One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt. — David Eddings

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other's well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship. — Bell Hooks

The most difficult part of dating is the initial invitation. — Janell Carroll

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down, — Pope Francis

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform. — Stan Musial