Robert Gottlieb Quotes

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

Robert Gottlieb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 29, 1931

Topics

BookYouSurrenderMoreSeemsGoing

There's no such thing as altruism.

Andrew Tobias

AltruismThing

Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.

Stephen Henderson

LifeLoveAppreciationLossYou

I love sports, and I love playing sports.

Stephen J. Dubner

LoveSportsPlayingI Love

I always wanted my daddy to be proud.

Tonya Harding

ProudAlwaysDaddyWanted

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Robert B. Laughlin

HomeChildhoodCottonFieldsWheat

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

Michael Moore

BusinessBookAmericaYearWorth

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

Jason Biggs

WorldComedyFavoritePhysicalThing

We are focused on Main Street, on supporting economic conditions - plentiful jobs and stable prices - that help all Americans.

Janet Yellen

HelpStreetFocusedEconomicPrices

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Jonathan Carroll

HopeHeartTimeMeColdRegret

I played with Prince in 2010... the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.

Jon Batiste

ChangeSongAmericaClothesTopHim

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

Diane Ladd

PurposePeopleSocietyViolenceBig

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Diane Paulus

ArtWantBubble

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