Ribbish Quotes & Sayings

There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture. — Nicholas Biddle

Tell me, is it true there's no word for Schadenfreude in English? — Amos Oz

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that. — Soledad O'Brien

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas. — Warren Buffett

Phury glanced at John and thought that sometimes it took only a hairbreadth between cars to avoid a mortal accident. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. — J.R. Ward

Better late than ever. — American Proverb.

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. — T. E. Hulme

Therefore, the idle parent who wants to stop the whining needs to stop whining himself, and one way is to resist the call to work ever longer and harder hours. Throw your BlackBerry into the river. Unslave yourself. Hard work will not lead to health and happiness. Just ask yourself: would you rather spend your child's first few years playing with them or working for the mega-corp in order to make them profits and you money to buy ribbish you don't need in order to dull the pain of overwork? — Tom Hodgkinson

Does it ever happen that a nice girl is a Lesbian?" she asked him shyly. — Ann Bannon

Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range of feeling is as vast as your own; who prefers the way the light falls in one particular spot in the woods, who enjoys fishing where the water eddies in a nearby stream, who loves her mother in her own complicated way, thinks her sister talks too loud, has a favorite cousin, a favorite season, who excels at dressmaking and knows, inside herself, that she is as intelligent and capable as anyone. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball. — Phil Simms

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy. — Sugar Ray Leonard