Riekeles Quotes & Sayings

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely? — Honore De Balzac

A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon. — Jane Austen

Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection. — Shefali Tsabary

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge. — Margaret Atwood

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. — Julius Charles Hare

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country. — Mary Quant

Extra' was a very American word. Americans seemed to have extras of everything. — Minfong Ho

I knew, despite playing in the NBA, that I would have to prepare for another career or vocation for when my playing days were over, in order to maintain relevancy. I didn't want to become known for what I used to do. — Len Elmore

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. — James Madison

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does. — Stanley Elkin