Riku Rantala Quotes & Sayings

During the day, the library is a realm of order. — Alberto Manguel

Maybe there was no happily ever after [ ... ] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for. — Jeanne DuPrau

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. — Michiel Huisman

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us? — H.L. Mencken

What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being. — Georges Bataille

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. — Gore Vidal

The audience
the book's actual cast
quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dropped everything that made the novel real was because there was no way the parents who ran the studio would ever expose their children in the same black light the book did. The movie was begging for our sympathy whereas the book didn't give a shit. And attitudes about drugs and sex had shifted quickly from 1985 to 1987 (and a regime change at the studio didn't help) so the source material
surprisingly conservative despite its surface immorality
had to be reshaped. — Bret Easton Ellis

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. — Charles Curtis

You didn't grow up driving ... you figured it out. — Gary Vaynerchuk

If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty. — Oscar Peterson

No one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it. — Milan Kundera

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton