Top 65 Rothenberg Quotes
#1. All of a sudden I felt invisible. Forgotten. Like the universe had played a really mean practical joke on me, even though I've never done anything to deserve it.
Jess Rothenberg
#2. This Jacob dude sounds like a real Bilbo Douche-Baggins.
Jess Rothenberg
#3. I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.
Stuart Rothenberg
#5. No matter how much you think you know a person - no matter how pretty they act, or how popular they seem, you can never know what their lives are really like.
Jess Rothenberg
#6. I am aware that what
the body does for love
is sometimes not.
I celebrate reversals.
I watch a funeral
somewhere at sea.
Jerome Rothenberg
#7. Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.
Paula Rothenberg
#9. When you're in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands.
Jess Rothenberg
#10. And yes, when he kisses you, the rest of the world disappears and your brain shuts off and all you can feel are his lips and nothing else matters.
Jess Rothenberg
#11. Life is far more interesting than it needs to be, because the forces that guide it are not merely practical.
David Rothenberg
#12. My heart belongs to you," I whispered. "It has always belonged to you.
Jess Rothenberg
#13. I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.
Susan Rothenberg
#14. Sometimes, friends drift in and out of our lives like fashion accessories - in one season and out the next.
Jess Rothenberg
#16. Turns out, hell's not so much a burning, scalding pit of fire and misery. It's actually much, much worse than that. Hell is when the people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can.
Jess Rothenberg
#17. In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do what is right and you will be at peace.
Jess Rothenberg
#18. Don't worry." He laughed. "I'm right here. I won't let you go." - Patrick
Jess Rothenberg
#19. He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes.
Jess Rothenberg
#21. Just like Jacob, Larkin made me realize that no matter how much you think you know a person-no matter how pretty they are, how together they act, or how popular they seem, you can never know what their lives are really like.
Not until you ask them.
And not unless you're listening.
Jess Rothenberg
#22. News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.
Jess Rothenberg
#23. To have been lived to have love and to have been loved.
Jess Rothenberg
#24. Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.
Randall Rothenberg
#25. The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.
Susan Rothenberg
#26. The problem is, there is absolutely nothing "fun" about falling in love. Nope. Mostly it just makes you feel sick and crazy and anxious and nervous that it's going to end miserably and ruin your whole life. And guess what: Then it does.
Jess Rothenberg
#29. The problem with time is, sometimes there's just too much of it.
Jess Rothenberg
#30. What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.
Stuart Rothenberg
#31. Forever is a pretty long time. Maybe longer than you think.
Jess Rothenberg
#32. But the sort of sucky thing is, time doesn't necessarily heal all wounds. Sometimes, it just makes the wounds worse.
Jess Rothenberg
#33. I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.
Jess Rothenberg
#34. He took your sweet, funny, perfect heart ... and he destroyed it. Why do you keep letting him do it over and over again?
Jess Rothenberg
#35. I bet,' he whispered, 'once upon a time, you made someone really, really happy.
Jess Rothenberg
#36. Every single part of me ached, sort of like the universe was exploding inside my skull, or like my body was tearing itself apart in order to rebuild everything from the inside out. To re-create some twisted semblance of me.
Jess Rothenberg
#37. California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.
Stuart Rothenberg
#38. I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.
Susan Rothenberg
#39. I skipped toward him and gave him a tiny kiss on the cheek. "Yup."
He looked at me like I was crazy. "What was that for?"
I smiled. "For being an excellent partner in crime.
Jess Rothenberg
#40. The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.
Susan Rothenberg
#41. The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.
Stuart Rothenberg
#42. For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.
Jess Rothenberg
#43. Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president.
Stuart Rothenberg
#45. If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.
Stuart Rothenberg
#46. The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.
Jess Rothenberg
#47. Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.
Susan Rothenberg
#49. As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.
Jerome Rothenberg
#52. I remember now." I looked into his deep, dark, familiar eyes. "And I'll never forget again.
Jess Rothenberg
#53. You can obsess and obsess over how things ended - what you did wrong or could have done differently - but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?
Jess Rothenberg
#54. I guess maybe once in a while the universe just knows a good thing when it sees it.
Jess Rothenberg
#55. I think I care about beauty, but I don't go for it. I hope it sometimes might be in there. I think, maybe, more in terms of a beautiful moment than trying to figure out what beauty is or what people respond to.
Susan Rothenberg
#56. Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.
Stuart Rothenberg
#57. Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can't articulate.
Susan Rothenberg
#58. You build up a head of steam. If you're four days out of the studio, on the fifth day you really crash in there. You will kill anybody who disturbs you on that fifth day, when you desperately need it.
Susan Rothenberg
#59. And yes, he tells you that you're beautiful, and suddenly, you are.
Jess Rothenberg
#60. I gave him a look. "Are you always this charming?"
"Are you always this beautiful?
Jess Rothenberg
#61. Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care what they're really about. And yet I can also say that the paintings are prayers.. that they have to do with whatever it is that makes you want more than what daily life affords.
Susan Rothenberg
#62. You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.
Jess Rothenberg
#63. I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.
Susan Rothenberg
#65. We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.
Stuart Rothenberg
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