Adam Rippon Quotes & Sayings

Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies. — Anton Chekhov

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy. — Abraham Lincoln

So how was cellar duty tonight?

Cellarific — Rachel Hawkins

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses. — Adolf Hitler

A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her. — Siegfried Kracauer

Pixies have to be invited in, like vampires. I read it on the Internet."
"Well, there you go," I mutter. "Then it must be true. — Carrie Jones

We are more than what we do ... much more than what we accomplish ... far more than what we possess. — William Arthur Ward

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things. — David Eddings

Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen. — Sheila Kay Adams

The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return. — John Ashbery

They will hurt her just like they hurt you to get it, and I'm not going to let that happen, you dumb little shit. — Kim Harrison

I'm not going to kiss you, Ella. Not tonight."

She sagged against me, her forehead landing on my shoulder.

"Kissing you would be too easy," I whispered in her ear. "And you're not a girl I want to be easy with. — Christina Lee

The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way of redistributing the wealth upward toward those who already have more than they know what to do with, and (2) creationism, which is a parallel idea for redistributing ignorance out from its fundamentalist strongholds to those who know more than they need to. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking. — Roy Fuller

I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously. — Lucy Corin