Top 100 Roth's Quotes
#1. 'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.
Richard Corliss
#2. I dare a lot more than that." Roth's skin seemed to thin his face becoming sharp angles."I will not stand for one hair on her head to be harmed. If you want her, you're going to have to come through me.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#3. Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.
Mordecai Richler
#4. Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.
Dinaw Mengestu
#5. The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
Veronica Roth
#6. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.
Kellyn Roth
#7. Feel my heart beat. Can you feel it?"
"Yes."
"Feel how steady it is?"
"It's fast."
"Yes, well, that has nothing to do with the box.
Veronica Roth
#8. So how can I hold Tobias's desperation against him, like I'm better than him, like I've never let my own brokenness blind me?
Veronica Roth
#9. You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
Veronica Roth
#10. I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head.
"You tired to what?" asks Eric
"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she went running off like a five-year-old. there's really nothing to blame her for but stupidity.
Veronica Roth
#11. They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.
David Lee Roth
#12. [A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.
Kellyn Roth
#13. I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it's a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don't want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.
Geneen Roth
#14. And the transfer initiates with forgiving parents will be able to see them again too. I suspect mine will not be among them. Not after my father's cry of outrage at the ceremony. Not after both their children left them.
Veronica Roth
#15. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night ...
Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service.
Eli Roth
#17. Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.
David Lee Roth
#18. It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
David Lee Roth
#20. Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.
Philip Roth
#21. I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
Philip Roth
#22. You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.
Eli Roth
#23. I have heard about your gifts myself, Miss Roth,' read the subtitle under Brentford's awkward mumble.
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#24. I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
Eli Roth
#25. I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true
I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine.
Veronica Roth
#26. He doesn't scowl, but his mouth is so tense that I know he's angry with me. 'Don't be an idiot,' he says.
'An idiot?' Is he talking about the blanket?
'You were lying.
Veronica Roth
#27. You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.
Eli Roth
#28. Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
Eli Roth
#29. If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.
Eli Roth
#30. There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
Eli Roth
#31. It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It's infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each
person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn't too great.
Veronica Roth
#32. I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
Veronica Roth
#33. How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.
Philip Roth
#34. Spring me from this role I play of the smothered son in the Jewish joke! Because it's beginning to pall a little at thirty-three!
Philip Roth
#35. I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie's cheek.
"FUCK," he shouted, wiping it off. "What if you killed me!" He threw a Skittle at my face. It hit my forehead.
"Ow!"
"Taste the rainbow bitch.
Michelle Hodkin
#36. That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
Veronica Roth
#37. On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.
David Lee Roth
#38. Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.
David Lee Roth
#39. I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."
Eli Roth
#40. The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.
David Lee Roth
#41. We have to go," Tris says, and I know she's not talking about leaving Michigan Avenue or taking Edward to the hospital; she's talking about the city. "We have to go," I repeat.
Veronica Roth
#42. It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
Philip Roth
#43. When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Philip Roth
#44. My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
Veronica Roth
#45. It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
Philip Roth
#46. There's nothing to be sorry for," Beck said. "You didn't know any better. And Ulrik was the only one who liked those damn doritos. You did us all a favor.
Maggie Stiefvater
#47. I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
Philip Roth
#48. I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
Madeleine Stowe
#49. The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?
Eric Roth
#50. So you're her brother?" says Lynn. "I guess we know who got the good genes."
I laugh at the expression on Caleb's face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide.
Veronica Roth
#51. I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
Eli Roth
#52. At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.
Philip Roth
#53. Proceed very carefully with what you're about to say," Roth advised softly. "That's my girl you're about to insult, and I'm not going to be happy about that. At all.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#55. The truth is, I want my choice to drive a knife right through my father's heart, to pierce him with as much pain and embarrassment and disappointment as possible. There is only one choice that can do that.
Veronica Roth
#56. I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.
Eli Roth
#57. I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people [ ... ] That's what courage is. Not ... hurting people for no reason. - Al
Veronica Roth
#58. I would quit while you're ahead. Really. It's an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it's not any good. I would say just stop now. You don't want to do this to yourself. That's my advice to you.
Philip Roth
#59. You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
David Lee Roth
#60. Genes aren't everything," Amar says. "People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That's what matters.
Veronica Roth
#62. Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.
Michael S. Roth
#63. You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.
Philip Roth
#64. Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?" It sounds like she's smirking. "Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
Veronica Roth
#65. When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.
Eric Roth
#66. By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.
Veronica Roth
#67. Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
Adam Mansbach
#68. I don't know anybody. I turn sentences around, and that's it.
Philip Roth
#69. In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
David Lee Roth
#70. One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.
Eli Roth
#71. It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
Veronica Roth
#72. It's amazing how much punishment we can take.
Philip Roth
#74. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
Geneen Roth
#76. Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become... I don't know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries. That's what he could be, if he trusted himself more" he adds."If Four wasn't so plagued with self-doubt, he would be one hell of a leader, I think.
Veronica Roth
#77. You put too much stock in intelligence," Marcia teased him. "It doesn't annihilate human nature." "That's
Philip Roth
#78. Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.
Veronica Roth
#79. Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now about people's relationships with books. Like anything else, these can be good or bad. The genre doesn't make it good or bad, it's the execution.
Marco Roth
#80. That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds.
I smile a little, and let myself go.
Veronica Roth
#81. I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.
Veronica Roth
#82. It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
David Lee Roth
#83. Perhaps one can see one's destiny accomplished before one's very eyes and still feel hungry.
Joseph Roth
#84. I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.
Veronica Roth
#85. Um ... how's your nose?"
"It's fine," he says. "I think the bruise really brings out my eyes, don't you?
Veronica Roth
#86. Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic."
"That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-
Veronica Roth
#87. You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.
Philip Roth
#88. The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes ... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.
Eli Roth
#89. Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.
Veronica Roth
#90. That's what I meant to say. That the forgiving was already done.
Veronica Roth
#91. You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
David Lee Roth
#92. I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
Veronica Roth
#93. The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.
Marco Roth
#94. I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
Sammy Hagar
#95. Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.
Kellyn Roth
#96. It's sunny today, the light glowing through the white curtains. I don't know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep-like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee. Some of the beds are made, and some still have rumpled sheets bunched up at the bottom or the side.
Veronica Roth
#97. Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
Eli Roth
#99. If I smile enough, maybe I can make them forget their jealousy, or hurt, or whatever is brewing behind Christina's eyes.
Veronica Roth
#100. Did you know it's always been my fantasy to do a chick on a swing?"
"Did you know it's a federal ofense to have sex on a playground?
C.M. Stunich
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