Revolutionary Road Quotes

#1. I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Michael Chabon

#2. 'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.

Kate Winslet

#3. Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

Richard Yates

#4. Approaching us through a haze of dust that overhung the road was a long column of men - a slovenly column that marched irregularly and out of step, so that it had the look of a gigantic centipede whose feet hurt.

Kenneth Roberts

#5. Not the prettiest girl in the world, maybe, but cute and quick and fun to have around.

Richard Yates

#6. So joy and sadness are simply the passage to a greater or lesser power of acting, a greater or lesser ability to bring about certain effects.

Michael Della Rocca

#7. Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.

Lance Armstrong

#8. He let the fingers of one hand splay out across the pocket of his shirt to show what a simple, physical thing the heart was; then he made the same hand into a fist.

Richard Yates

#9. Then I looked at myself in the mirror. I was proud of myself, of my entire life, of everything I have done. It was the BEST feeling ... I didn't want to leave that place. I wish I never woke up.

Benjamin Breedlove

#10. Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Charles Reade

#11. He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Baltasar Gracian

#12. Quotes From The Whipping Boyfriend

Picky alive is better than picky dead in a freezer any day, she told herself.
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Edward Reed

#13. For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

Wolfgang Puck