Patricia Highsmith Ripley Quotes & Sayings

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it. — John Medina

Fairy tale 'adaptations' are usually stripped of every moral and lesson the stories were originally intended to teach, and replaced with singing and dancing forest animals. I recently read that films are being created depicting Cinderella as a struggling hip-hop singer and Sleeping Beauty as a warrior princess battling zombies!" "Awesome," a student behind Alex whispered to himself. Alex — Chris Colfer

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. — Patricia Highsmith

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife. — Patricia Highsmith

If bullshit were music, you'd be a big brass band, — A Meredith Walters

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger. — Louis C.K.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services. — Edward Felten

I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it is dung. They wash off in the square and the well becomes polluted. All die. O the embarrassment. — Joe Haldeman

I rather take the risk of trying to find real love than loving someone I know that is guaranteed — Kristal Eley

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — M.F.K. Fisher

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible. — Peter Beinart

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker. — John Krasinski

Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to 'be strong'. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human. — Yasmin Mogahed

Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it? — William Gibson