Ripostes Quotes & Sayings

If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it. — Zedd

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

It's like we each have a wall that separates our dreams from reality, but mine has cracks in it. The dreams can wriggle and squeeze their way through, until it's hard to know the difference. — Nathan Filer

Something like that." "You — Gene Wolfe

As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and wares; while at the same time it fosters, through its antics, the illusion of a free circulation of ideas and opinions - not unlike jesters in a tyrant's court. — Robert Faurisson

For those under the age of 45 it seemed that world events had finally contrived a meaningful test of their capacity for conscientious political thought. Many of my acquaintances, I realized, had passed the last decade or two in a state of intellectual and psychic yearning for such a moment - or, if they hadn't, were able to quickly assemble an expert arguer's arsenal of thrusts and statistics and ripostes and gambits and examples and salient facts and rhetorical maneuvers. — Joseph O'Neill

The man in black retreated before the slashing of the great sword. He tried to sidestep, tried to parry, tried to somehow escape the doom that was now inevitable. But there was no way. He could block fifty thrusts; the fifty-first flicked through, and now his left arm was bleeding. He could thwart thirty ripostes, but not the thirty-first, and now his shoulder bled. The — William Goldman

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door. — Mike Gorman

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. — Hilaire Belloc

Did you know I was born in a Holiday Inn. — Bret Easton Ellis

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too. — Justina Chen

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton