Cards Quote by Renata Adler Download Open image “Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.” — Renata Adler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cards Explanation Kind Kind Wild Neurotic Neurotic Kind Purpose Purpose Explanation Wild Card
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“I think that when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.” — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“Every love story,every commercial trade, every secret, every matter in which trust is involved, is a gentle transaction of hostages. Everything is, to a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“I've had our paper's gossip column since last month. It is egalitarian. I look for people who are quite obscure, and report who is… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Most dressing rooms are sterile and they feel like someone else's space. But over two weeks of previews, before the show officially opens, they… — Mathew Horne Copy Share Image
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Whether Theresa May had stabbed has stabbed the former Mayor of London in the back and Michael Gove had stabbed him in the front.… — Nigel Evans Copy Share Image
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
![“I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've got a good agent, I've got a good manager, I'm getting a lot of work out there and doing a lot of stuff - getting a lot of film projects on the go.” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/918/irvine-welsh-843_agents_i-don-t-see-trainspotting-as-an-albatros_7750.jpg)
