Ripausa Quotes & Sayings

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin

My dear, just because something seems implausible doesn't make it impossible. Think about how long people believed the world was flat. — Angela Henry

If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems. — Brewster Kahle

If Michael Bisping ever addresses me in a public comment again, I will bury him where he stands. — Chael Sonnen

Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain. — Gail Caldwell

World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible. — George Orwell

It was an unfamiliar feeling, waking up with a place to go, a place I was actually beginning to comprehend and face without a sense of terror.
More than that, I was even questioning the assumption that I was, in my bones, a scared and anxious and miserable person. It felt like the days were almost supernaturally good, that I could wake up without the usual wave of terror, that the days were admixed with some foreign substance dripping into them, some animating essence, like the dragonborn races of Endoria, dragonborn days. I felt like I'd stumbled on one of the open secrets of the world. Why hadn't I realized before that being a grown-up could be anything you wanted it to be? — Austin Grossman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend. — Richard P. Feynman

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply. — William Butler Yeats

There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and fluttering about or take the time and really heed that call and create your own path to your highest good? ... You cannot let other people define your life for you. You are the author of your own life ... Real power is when you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best it can be done. Authentic power. There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, "I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove." And nobody has to tell you, "You go, girl," because you know you're already gone. — Oprah Winfrey

I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world. — James Ellroy

Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Because I don't really work out, I have to eat very healthy if I want to maintain my figure. — Jillian Barberie

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men. — Gish Jen

We're friendly toward strangers because of a general belief (I don't know where it comes from) that we're born strangers and that the memory of how that feels never really leaves us. — Helen Oyeyemi