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  • I loved you so much right then Sam Roth. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. -- John Updike
  • Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts -- Eddie Van Halen
  • Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate. -- David Stockman
  • I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.' -- Dhani Harrison
  • I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal. -- Suze Orman
  • Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him. -- Jacqueline Susann
  • You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?) -- Gayle Forman
  • When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well. -- Sammy Hagar
  • The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen. -- Alex Van Halen
  • Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life. -- Ann Patchett
  • My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie. -- Dave Mustaine
  • There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. -- Ruth Rendell
  • I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you. -- Steven Strogatz
  • I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth. -- Ishmael Reed
  • A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal. -- John Updike
  • There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel. -- Adam Mansbach
  • Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage. -- Chris Cornell
  • Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. -- Mordecai Richler
  • Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do. -- Tim Robbins
  • The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth. -- Alex Winter
  • But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. -- John Green
  • Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga? -- Charles Manson
  • Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel. -- Adam Mansbach
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  • I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is. -- Eddie Van Halen
  • Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge. There´s always another choice, Kylar said. -- Brent Weeks
  • In true rock star fashiuon, I had insomina last night and I didn't sleep at all. So all I need is a bottle of Jack Daniels and some groupies, and I'll be just like David Lee Roth. -- Chris Jericho
  • I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it? -- Amy Bloom
  • In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special. -- Ray Winstone
  • I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. -- Sammy Hagar
  • Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it. -- David Bennun
  • Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth. -- Dinaw Mengestu
  • I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid. -- Meghan Daum
  • David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. -- Eddie Van Halen
  • I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery. -- Tim Roth
  • Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth. -- David Lee Roth
  • To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. -- Philip Roth
  • I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines. -- Madeleine Stowe
  • Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically anything I've ever read of his I've really enjoyed. He just has tremendous talent. But I think he should have given himself a break and gone deeper into the society. -- Tom Wolfe
  • At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ireland, that didn't work out very well, as you can imagine. -- Kevin Barry
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