Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Joyce Carol Oates

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RelationshipChildrenParentsWay

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

Jimmy Piersall

MeYouTouchKickRear

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

Jo Nesbo

MeGameThinkStock MarketTurnOff

I will not talk to journalists about anything that does not concern my work as a scientist or lecturer.

Joachim Sauer

WorkWillTalkAnythingScientist

Rock stars aren't crapped out of the sky.

Andy Biersack

StarsSkyRockOutRock Stars

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Amy Tan

TimeBookPresentFindPlaceMood

We became closer and closer at the end of Freddie's life, and I think we were co-dependent in many ways. We stuck together for an awfully long time, and I think we all felt we needed one another.

Roger Taylor

LifeTimeTogetherThinkEndLong

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.

Rob Huebel

BeeFirstConcertBee GeesEver

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.

Little Richard

GoodMoneyWordsMeSongNever

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

DMX

DayMeMomClothesThreeMeals

Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win.

Douglas Wilder

SupportWinVotingSeriousPose

Put 'Cowboy' on every card. I'd be ready to go.

Donald Cerrone

ReadyGoCowboyEveryPutCard

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

Claire Messud

WorkMyselfWishRememberedRather

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