Rikers High Quotes & Sayings

How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor. pg. 65 — Geraldine Brooks

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day. — Margaret Mead

Are you sizeist? — John Connolly

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised. — Paul Reubens

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself. — Vincent Van Gogh

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall. — Meg Greenfield

In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words. — George Grosz

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. — Jean Giraudoux

It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement. — Gloria Steinem

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft. — Justin Bieber

He said that his eyes were red because he had a cold. — E. Nesbit