Ridset Quotes & Sayings

Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are really beneath the comprehension of those who have not made themselves masters, as I have, of the intricate and arduous study of politics; I would rather keep my seat, and intend doing so. — Charles Dickens

Enriched by a singular event that is larger than life, I no longer have the luxury of being ordinary. To stand on the lunar surface and look back at our Earth creates such a personal sense of awe that even Alan Shepard wept at the view. Trying to exist within the paradox of being in this world after visiting another may be why some Moon voyagers tend to be reclusive. I — Eugene Cernan

She walks in the loveliness she made,
Between the apple-blossom and the water
She walks among the patterned pied brocade,
Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter. — Vita Sackville-West

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum! — Omar Khayyam

In the Hebrews passage three preventives are listed for a calloused Christian heart. The first is daily exhortation of one another (3:13). — Charles C. Ryrie

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene. — Umberto Eco

Maybe you're not willing to give up a lover who's colder than you are. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't think I've ever been asked to act out bad sex. It's not my style. I've been blessed with good rhythm. — Charles Dance

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex. — Jimmy Carl Black

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer. — Maya Angelou

You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub. — Keith Carradine