Ripatti Shirts Quotes & Sayings

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. — Bill James

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it. — George Saunders

There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit. — Stephen Sondheim

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places - the activities that are intimately associated with boredom - are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. For storytelling is always the art of repeated stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained. — Walter Benjamin

When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life ... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit. — Chandra West

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

She can be a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a conundrum, rolled in a frito burrito. In other words, a total freaking mystery to anyone who isn't gifted with mind-reading abilities. — Michael Makai

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. — Benjamin Whorf

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results. — Carly Fiorina

Kid, you'll be fine. — Neil Hilborn

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. — Robert Kennedy