Rickards Homepage Quotes & Sayings

Nothing good comes from hiding in
the shadows — David A. Broughton

But how nice it is that one can come to know someone just through correspondence, and become really passionate friends. — Julia Child

Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they are themselves terrorists, insofar as they themselves march to the tune of seduction. — Jean Baudrillard

We're all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it's all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

You really are a badass, edgy guy who tells it like it is ... about couscous. — Jim Norton

... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness. — Ingrid Schaffner

If the bad stuff didn't exist, the good stuff wouldn't seem so incredibly good. — Allie Everhart

Your power comes from the songs. — Ethel Wilson

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best. — Franz Grillparzer

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren. — Thomas Sprat

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state. — Lemn Sissay

We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough. — William H Gass

I just starred at him like he was trying to sell me the Sham-wow and the Slapchop for only $19.99 — Kevin Hearne

(Rome) is a Metropolitan Museum of Art the size of Manhattan, no roof, no display cases, and half a million combustion engines rumbling in the hallways. — Anthony Doerr

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything. — Lester Levenson