English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Philip Roth Quotes

I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.

Philip Roth

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

George Eliot quote: "Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. Hjalmar Schacht
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full. Muriel Spark
William J. Clinton quote: "Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?"
Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office? William J. Clinton
Mae West quote: "A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has..."
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. Mae West
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough? Doug Wilder
... Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days --- the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the whole of the continent of Europe was a den of immorality and the rest of the world an unexploited land of savages and cannibals. Baroness Orczy
Eric Heiden quote: "We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot..."
We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety. Eric Heiden
I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got. Michael Phelps
Gregory Peck quote: "Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?"
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? Gregory Peck
I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life. Eric Bana
Henry Ward Beecher quote: "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven."
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. Henry Ward Beecher
Joseph Conrad quote: "He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is..."
He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life. Joseph Conrad
Nunnally Johnson quote: "As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker...."
As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum. Nunnally Johnson
I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment. Molly Parker