Ricochets Pronouncing Quotes & Sayings

What about your beloved Epictetus? Or your beloved Emily Dickinson? You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write a poem, to just sit down and say a prayer till her nasty, egotistical urge goes away? No, of course you don't! But you'd like your friend Professor Tupper's ego taken away from him. — J.D. Salinger

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes. — Raf Simons

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see. — Macaulay Culkin

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. — Guy Fieri

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. — Friedrich Schiller

Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy. — Naomi Wolf

And what was it about the dark that made her question things she'd never questioned before, in the day. — Kristin Cashore

A foundation built upon trust will accomplish more than a foundation built upon worry. — K.R. Royal

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. — Anna C. Brackett

No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong as the men who defend it. — George R R Martin

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director. — Yash Chopra