J.D. Roth Quotes

He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

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.

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?

One choice can transform you!

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.

Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.

Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

You never know what's coming for you.

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

If you don't have to lie, you don't have to remember anything. You can just go. That's really where I'm at. It's just making it up as I go along.

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

I've always been very self-motivated.

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.