I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
DAVID LEE ROTH When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's...
DAVID LEE ROTH You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw ...
DAVID LEE ROTH I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
DAVID LEE ROTH Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
DAVID LEE ROTH Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the mos...
DAVID LEE ROTH The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
DAVID LEE ROTH There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they a...
DAVID LEE ROTH The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
DAVID LEE ROTH Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
DAVID LEE ROTH Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside ...
DAVID LEE ROTH Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
DAVID LEE ROTH I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
DAVID LEE ROTH You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problem...
DAVID LEE ROTH Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
DAVID LEE ROTH He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
DAVID LEE ROTH You've done an extraordinary job and I hope I can honor it,
DAVID LEE ROTH You've built quite an empire here, and I'd like to think that they've saved it for the best guy, ......
DAVID LEE ROTH Howard took his old audience. We're after a new one.
DAVID LEE ROTH I didn't know what I was doing. I asked for rehearsal, and they didn't give it to me.
DAVID LEE ROTH I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonp...
DAVID LEE ROTH The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
DAVID LEE ROTH It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no ac...
DAVID LEE ROTH You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using ...
DAVID LEE ROTH I talked to the drummer [Alex Van Halen] about a week ago. And I think, eventually, the inevitable w...
DAVID LEE ROTH [Roth — whose announcement ends months of rumors over just who'd be filling Stern's immense kicks ...
DAVID LEE ROTH They want me to copy Howard [Stern]. But I refuse to regiment this show. ... I told them I would qui...
DAVID LEE ROTH Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
DAVID LEE ROTH It requires someone of your stature to make [the medium successful].
DAVID LEE ROTH It's a huge disappointment and I love doing radio. We got canned 20 minutes before the hour.
DAVID LEE ROTH When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel a...
DAVID LEE ROTH The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
DAVID LEE ROTH Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.
DAVID LEE ROTH People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
DAVID LEE ROTH It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!
DAVID LEE ROTH A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
DAVID LEE ROTH It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a ya...
DAVID LEE ROTH My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of cont...
DAVID LEE ROTH I was booted, tossed, and it's going to cost somebody.
DAVID LEE ROTH People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
DAVID LEE ROTH I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memor...
DAVID LEE ROTH Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want ...
DAVID LEE ROTH I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
DAVID LEE ROTH It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!
DAVID LEE ROTH We think this new town hall is really a true civic building in the broadest sense of the word. We wa...
DAVID ROTH He said 'Oh, we all do this. ... We all eat cereal. We sneak it. We bring it into our offices,'
DAVID ROTH It's a reference point that's powerful. Cereal is one of the first foods you eat.
DAVID ROTH This was an unbelievable tragedy for the entire family... his grief is immeasurable. There is no gre...
DAVID ROTH Despite any defenses, he could not and would not put his family through the ordeal of a trial.
DAVID ROTH At one time it was believed we had a site license and could install Microsoft products wherever we w...
DAVID ROTH Every time I ask someone, 'What does a Saturday morning mean to you?' ... They all tell me the same ...
DAVID ROTH We were very fortunate that the candidate we did get was a good match. We could have been struggling...
DAVID ROTH People have very strong opinions and feelings about it [cereal].
DAVID ROTH Cereal is universally appealing. It speaks to the sense of joy and freedom and happiness and indulge...
DAVID ROTH My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's...
DAVID LEE Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physic...
DAVID LEE Just like Harry you have to learn your way around. You have to go to classes, learn spells, and inte...
DAVID LEE behind-the-scenes look at television's most egomaniacal diva.
DAVID LEE Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluid...
DAVID LEE Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the dis...
DAVID LEE It's going to be big. This tournament will put Wilson on the national soccer map. We look forward to...
DAVID LEE The response has been fantastic. We wanted to start a debate and highlight all the exciting and wond...
DAVID LEE All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface i...
DAVID LEE Anything that ruins our sovereignty is out of the question.
DAVID LEE It was a little bit of mixed emotions, as you can imagine. I was so proud of my little brothers for ...
DAVID LEE I mentioned [the NBA] to him briefly. I don't think it's something he's focused on right now.
DAVID LEE To me, as a professional diplomat, I always consider the substance to be more important than the fac...
DAVID LEE I still think it is a negative step I am not convinced.
DAVID LEE It felt good to be in there. They recognize I'm a hard worker and that's what I'm going to continue ...
DAVID LEE He really understands the game. And I just really think it's a big blessing that I can have my first...
DAVID LEE I think you really have to evaluate and see how things are going and be honest. That goes back to ha...
DAVID LEE People are saying, 'I could buy a bus pass for $77, and I'm paying that much in a week and a half ju...
DAVID LEE Just like Harry you have to learn your way around,
DAVID LEE Do not apply -- run, don't walk, away!
DAVID LEE The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.
DAVID LEE There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity ...
DAVID LEE Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be support...
DAVID LEE My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee...
DAVID LEE I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughl...
DAVID LEE If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which ...
VERONICA ROTH It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an ...
VERONICA ROTH Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they...
VERONICA ROTH I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why...
VERONICA ROTH I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure...
VERONICA ROTH I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed ...
VERONICA ROTH I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each ot...
VERONICA ROTH I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
VERONICA ROTH I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look dow...
VERONICA ROTH When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that&#...
VERONICA ROTH I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think ...
VERONICA ROTH I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not ans...
VERONICA ROTH If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
VERONICA ROTH People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I...
VERONICA ROTH When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And...
VERONICA ROTH 'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to ...
VERONICA ROTH There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways...
VERONICA ROTH I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possibl...
VERONICA ROTH Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed ...
VERONICA ROTH Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
VERONICA ROTH Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy&#...
ELI ROTH As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi w...
ELI ROTH I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and peop...
VERONICA ROTH Human reason can excuse any evil.
VERONICA ROTH A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm...
PHILIP ROTH A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un...
PHILIP ROTH It's not unlike how we develop any of our stories on our athletes. It's a pretty collaborative effor...
ADAM ROTH You know, I feel complete. I don't feel like a part of me is missing. I just feel perfect.
ADAM ROTH That's going to change, and a big part of that change will be the Interstate 355 expansion, schedule...
ADAM ROTH That's going to change, and a big part of that change will be the Interstate 355 expansion scheduled...
ADAM ROTH Will County is a global transportation center.
ADAM ROTH This isn't just about core runners. This is about all athletes of all levels of competition and shap...
ADAM ROTH Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH To get, give.
BOB ROTH It’s like being offered lemonade after having something really sweet. The lemonade was wonderful b...
KELLYN ROTH We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for anothe...
VERONICA ROTH Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. ...
VERONICA ROTH But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's al...
VERONICA ROTH No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something ...
VERONICA ROTH I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where o...
VERONICA ROTH We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important...
VERONICA ROTH ...there is power in self-sacrifice.
VERONICA ROTH The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, the...
VERONICA ROTH A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."
His Mother says: "Why did yo...
VERONICA ROTH I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
VERONICA ROTH Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up ...
VERONICA ROTH Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.
VERONICA ROTH Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH Lies require commitment.
VERONICA ROTH I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my b...
VERONICA ROTH A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
VERONICA ROTH For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “...
VERONICA ROTH I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
VERONICA ROTH I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, for...
VERONICA ROTH Some things are hard to let go of.
VERONICA ROTH Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up
VERONICA ROTH Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic."
"That's not very nice ...
VERONICA ROTH Can you be a girl for a few seconds?"
"I'm always a girl" I frown.
"You know what I mean. ...
VERONICA ROTH When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her ha...
VERONICA ROTH There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f...
VERONICA ROTH You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re tr...
VERONICA ROTH We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst...
VERONICA ROTH What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear m...
VERONICA ROTH Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and ho...
VERONICA ROTH I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else availab...
VERONICA ROTH Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or t...
VERONICA ROTH I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and l...
VERONICA ROTH I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con...
PHILIP ROTH Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an...
PHILIP ROTH When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
PHILIP ROTH To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth...
PHILIP ROTH Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form...
PHILIP ROTH I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I a...
PHILIP ROTH The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
PHILIP ROTH Ich habe sie Erfahrung gemacht, dass die Menschen aus vielen verschiedenen Schichten von Geheimnisse...
VERONICA ROTH . . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to b...
GENEEN ROTH When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe tha...
GENEEN ROTH You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are...
GENEEN ROTH Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is for...
PHILIP ROTH Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as...
VERONICA ROTH I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
VERONICA ROTH My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a centu...
PHILIP ROTH If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.
MARK ROTH As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a mor...
VERONICA ROTH Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific ta...
ELI ROTH I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
VERONICA ROTH There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses...
VERONICA ROTH Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
VERONICA ROTH I don’t know how long it takes for me to realize that isn’t going to happen,
that she is go...
VERONICA ROTH Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
VERONICA ROTH It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, t...
VERONICA ROTH Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strengt...
VERONICA ROTH Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.
VERONICA ROTH But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mothe...
VERONICA ROTH I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
VERONICA ROTH Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"

I r...
VERONICA ROTH The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
VERONICA ROTH If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
VERONICA ROTH The person you became with her is worth being.
VERONICA ROTH Change, like healing, takes time.
VERONICA ROTH You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
"You're one to talk."
"Hey, I could be nice if I t...
VERONICA ROTH I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
VERONICA ROTH She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done f...
VERONICA ROTH I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTH I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
VERONICA ROTH There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y...
TIM ROTH Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
PHILIP ROTH When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was l...
ANDREA ROTH He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scene...
ANDREA ROTH All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy.
ANDREA ROTH We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, cert...
ANDREA ROTH Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going t...
ELI ROTH Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w...
PHILIP ROTH Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-ge...
ELI ROTH You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes ...
TIM ROTH 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. I...
ELI ROTH In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ...
VERONICA ROTH I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Daunt...
VERONICA ROTH