Joyce Carol Oates Running Quotes

#1. I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#2. The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.

James Joyce

#3. Running! If there is any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I cannot think of what it might be.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

Louise Hay

#5. I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Al Leiter

#6. The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#7. I'd rather lie under an elephant suffering from diarrea with my mouth open wide.

Suzanne Wright

#8. Raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack ...

Elizabeth George

#9. Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know - or seem to have, earn, or know.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. If you simply kept your eyes open, it seemed, you just might find something valuable in the most unlikely of places. The trick was to recognize a good thing when you saw it, no matter how odd or worthless it might at first appear, no matter who else might just walk away and leave it behind.

Daniel James Brown

#12. You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

Joyce Carol Oates

#13. If guilt's a luxury, then I'm a plutocrat.

Fritz Leiber

#14. It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.

Hortense Calisher

#15. For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

Vidal Sassoon

#16. Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.

Michelle Stuart