Richsonic Quotes & Sayings

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage. — Allan Sherman

The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there. — Felipe Esparza

There is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants. — Charles A. Reich

Gators are just something you have to accept where I come from. Most don't go anywhere near the houses, even though there are lots of delicious children and dogs there. Every once in a while, though, an alligator has a lightbulb moment and decides to take a stroll and see the world a bit. — Maureen Johnson

Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around. — Ann Brashares

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing. — Jean Baudrillard

Books are the single most efficient technology there is in terms of nimbleness and bang for the buck. You can present a whole universe in a book. It's produced simply by sitting in front of a typewriter or a computer and tapping on keys. There's no real limit to what you can conjure up in the reader's imagination by doing that. The book is irreplaceable. — Neal Stephenson

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. — Glenn Beck

I never made promises lightly
There may have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We will walk in fields of gold — Sting

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. — P. J. O'Rourke

Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake. — Zach Braff

They hired a PhD student from the statistics department at the University of California at Berkeley to help them, but he quit after they asked him to study the market for pork belly futures. "It turned out that he was a vegetarian," said Jamie. "He had a problem with capitalism in general, but the pork bellies pushed him over the edge. — Michael Lewis

Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done. — Joel Spolsky

When I go to prayer," confessed an eminent Christian, "I find my heart so loath to go to God, and when it is with Him, so loath to stay." Then he pointed to the need for self-discipline. "When you feel most indisposed to pray, yield not to it," he counseled, "but strive and endeavor to pray, even when you think you cannot. — J. Oswald Sanders

Anna ... envied Joan's deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she'd been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider. — Nevada Barr