Ripd Quotes & Sayings

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be! — Langston Hughes

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one. — Cathy Guisewite

I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it. — Groucho Marx

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against. — John Sculley

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live. — Dorothy Day

I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style. It's not Hedi Slimane. You know, I'm not all that familiar with his thing-I really don't look. I certainly know who he is. — Hedi Slimane

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The first thing I check once I'm inside a story is the emotional weather. Is there a storm coming? What's the temperature, and how powerful are the winds? The difference between walking on water and sliding one's ass across slick ice is only a matter of degree. — Bob Thurber