Emma Forrest Quotes

One man's folly is another man's wife.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

I like really bad T.V.; it's a problem. Love me some reality.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

Think no more of it John; you are only a child who had evil counselors.

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.

Erskine is really a greater fool than I could have thought it possible to be and it is charity to give him that name.