Philip Roth Quotes

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 19, 1933 - May 22, 2018

Topics

MemoriesExperienceImaginationPast

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

Joanna Lumley

UncleFirstTwoOnlyMaybeGreats

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

Ann Jillian

LifeWomanMeFeelNowExplore

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

Jeff Vandermeer

ChristianAtheistAgnosticImagery

Quarterbacks like guys who try to do everything they can for them and put it on the line for them. So that's what I try to do.

Stefon Diggs

TryEverythingLineWhoLikeGuys

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair!

Tracy Reese

ShoesPerfectLookOutfitImportant

When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.

Masayoshi Son

GenerationDifficultAlwaysRetire

Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

Jasmine Guinness

JobBeingNumberPriorityTakesMum

I used to tell my mother, 'I'm going to have to get a real job one day.' You keep saying this will end one day, but people still call us up and ask us to sing. It's truly amazing.

Dennis Edwards

MotherDayJobPeopleAmazingEnd

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.

Doug Baldwin

KnowledgePeopleKnowTryListen

Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.

Deepak Chopra

TruthExperienceRealityObservation

I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

Donald Trump

SimpleDiscriminationCivil Rights

While Congress did not, to my knowledge, calculate aggregate dollar values for the nationwide effects of racial discrimination in 1964, in 1994 it did rely on evidence of the harms caused by domestic violence and sexual assault, citing annual costs of $3 billion in 1990 and $5 to $10 billion in 1993.

David Souter

KnowledgeViolenceValuesCongress

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