The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.


John Oates

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering, do you really want the endorsement of a guy w...
DAVID LETTERMAN
My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found ...
JOHN KRASINSKI
My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
DENIS LEARY
I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny. A real charmer ...
JASON MANTZOUKAS
I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I did...
DREE HEMINGWAY
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum...
MAMIE GUMMER
I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't wan...
JAMES CROMWELL
I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.
JESSICA SIMPSON
At the end of the day, all I can be is me. I'm not John Cena. In my 30 years, I've never bee...
ROMAN REIGNS
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But...
KRISTEN STEWART
I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER
I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi...
KARL MARLANTES
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat L...
PETER T. KING
I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - G...
MARIE WINDSOR
I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an ...
GENE KELLY
I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.
CAROL LOOMIS
I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and e...
NEIL TENNANT
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my b...
WALTER ISAACSON
And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate,...
THOMAS KENEALLY
I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn...
BILL WYMAN
I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I&#...
JOHN WAYNE
I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would'...
HARRY DEAN STANTON
I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even ...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR.
I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.
GEORGE LOPEZ
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for my...
MACAULAY CULKIN
A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still re...
JASON SUDEIKIS
There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I...
VAL KILMER
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or Joh...
DENNIS FARINA
If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I lear...
JOE KLEIN
I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't wa...
KURT COBAIN
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to...
JOAN DIDION
I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think a...
PATRICK DUFFY
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I di...
NEIL TENNANT
John Kerry made a mistake of saying something embarrassing while a microphone was on. And now he's b...
DAVID LETTERMAN
I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
TAB HUNTER
Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage versio...
JERRY HALL
I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm goi...
SINEAD O'CONNOR
I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm goi...
SINEAD O'CONNOR
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of...
ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL
I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e...
AIMEE MANN
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have...
OLGA KORBUT
I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just d...
PAGET BREWSTER
I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
JAMIE BAMBER
One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the...
GARY LOCKE
I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarr...
LINDSAY DAVENPORT
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got th...
CHARLES KURALT
I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of...
BOB NEWHART
When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, whi...
SCOTT MICHAEL FOSTER
It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was tra...
ZIYI ZHANG
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth,...
WAYNE SHORTER
I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone an...
PEGGY LIPTON
I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.
KIRK DOUGLAS
Oh my God... I worked with George C. Scott, way before 'Chips,' in 'The New Centurion.&#...
ERIK ESTRADA
I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 200...
MARK MCKINNON
I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I...
LORETTA LYNN
I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all...
JOANNA LUMLEY
I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want ...
FRANCESCA ANNIS
I used to come down and polish John Wayne because I was proud he was here and proud to be here. Not ...
DAVE ROY
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE
If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'...
ALAN ARKIN
Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because ...
RICK SANTELLI
I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m...
FRANCES BAY
I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dat...
WARREN KOLE
I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect ...
KARI WAHLGREN
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I ...
JON MCGREGOR
I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of wo...
BRENDON URIE
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these thing...
BAHMAN GHOBADI
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i...
LEA MICHELE
I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but al...
ANGELINA JOLIE
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. An...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick ...
PETER MULLAN
[That kind of sucked, didn't it? I want the old Notre Dame back like I want the old John Madden back...
AL MICHAELS
The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifti...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rud...
BARRY MANILOW
I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,...
T. J. PERKINS
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suff...
GENE WILDER
That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments becau...
JULIUS ERVING
It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruc...
ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a w...
LARRY BIRD
I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who...
CARMEN EJOGO
The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is som...
TOM BROKAW
I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer...
MICHAEL KEATON
I can't stand John McCain.
HARRY REID
I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
MADDIE HASSON
I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an...
ERIC MCCORMACK
I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn&...
GARRETT CLAYTON
I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so ...
OLLY MURS
I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I t...
CLIVE CUSSLER
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE
It happened on 'Laguna Beach' where you don't know what's real and fake, and I saw c...
KRISTIN CAVALLARI
I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call '...
GEORGE W. BUSH
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it...
JACK VANCE
I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ...
HANNAH WARE
I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wro...
JOYCE MEYER
When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I...
DAVID EDWARDS

More John Oates

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
JOHN OATES
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
JOHN OATES
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ...
JOHN OATES
Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where pe...
JOHN OATES
In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doe...
JOHN OATES
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
JOHN OATES
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
JOHN OATES
You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, ...
JOHN OATES
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riche...
JOHN OATES
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the app...
JOHN OATES
When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my gu...
JOHN OATES
I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
JOHN OATES
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly ...
JOHN OATES
My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
JOHN OATES
I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high...
JOHN OATES
The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record ...
JOHN OATES
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the ...
JOHN OATES
I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of ...
JOHN OATES
Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills h...
JOHN OATES
You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate ...
JOHN OATES
I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the crea...
JOHN OATES
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
JOHN OATES
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
JOHN OATES
I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton J...
JOHN OATES
Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
JOHN OATES
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
JOHN OATES
There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, a...
JOHN OATES
If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'We...
JOHN OATES
Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage st...
JOHN OATES
I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
JOHN OATES
I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like...
JOHN OATES
I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac...
ADAM OATES
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
ADAM OATES
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point...
ADAM OATES
You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no dif...
ADAM OATES
Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
ADAM OATES
I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
ADAM OATES
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ba...
ADAM OATES
I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy th...
ADAM OATES
I am just going outside and may be some time.
LAWRENCE OATES
Love is just like the flower; it has hidden depths that we rarely ever explore. Beneath the surface ...
CAROL OATES
Sebastian tapped his index finger on the polished wood thoughtfully. Yes, it was a universal truth: ...
CAROL OATES
A broken heart is something even I can’t protect you from. I’ve been alone for so long, and beli...
CAROL OATES
He would be overjoyed. To see the outpouring of love from the fans, the former players and the Range...
GLORIA OATES
This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead.
GLORIA OATES
It's absolutely awesome the turnout that we've had here. Friends from as far back as high school and...
GLORIA OATES
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think ge...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think get...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being los...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as sm...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that yo...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire univer...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make p...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out d...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only wor...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terribl...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chron...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fict...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and w...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a stead...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a h...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've i...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valenti...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the wo...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged t...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire univ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an in...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I am just going outside and may be some time.
CAPTAIN LAWRENCE OATES
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forg...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was hi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fate...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading co...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intell...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's '...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I never change, I simply become more myself.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would t...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjec...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound st...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that...
CHIEF DANIEL OATES
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next st...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have al...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the tho...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
JOYCE CAROL OATES
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, d...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
In love there are two things - bodies and words
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The Falls ... a story written with Shakespearean proportions, pitting the power of blood ties agains...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I feel that in my novel I'm trying to re-address that imbalance and allow people to see that Norma J...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Lots of people I was starting to hate who I used to like a lot. But when you like people, you can hu...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get ther...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sa...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck
JOYCE CAROL OATES
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy loopi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem." This thought came to me a few weeks ago...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
the United States government was at the mercy of special-interest groups, lobbies like the National ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amor...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other peo...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indul...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedles...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psycho...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolution...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or y...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, an...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you ca...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You wi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. A...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insani...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work prod...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. I...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you k...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your e...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY