Rhinestein Quotes & Sayings

[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men. — Fanny Kemble

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever. — Deborah Eisenberg

Theros Ironfeld said once that - in all the years he had lived - he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil. — Margaret Weis

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do. — Chris O'Dowd

A book's flaws make it less predictable. — Janet Fitch

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience. — Robert Bateman

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba. — William Levy

In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason that reason could discover. — Tamim Ansary

Dr. Rhinestein did not test for malice, for spiteful indifference, or for congenital meanness. If they could, I wonder how many fish we might throw back. — Lionel Shriver

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. — Steve Carlton

I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down. — Michael Jackson

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story. — Juliet Stevenson

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. — Franz Kafka

I want so much to open your eyes, cause I need you to look into mine — Snow Patrol

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life. — Questlove

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus. — Thomas M. Disch