Rippers Quotes & Sayings

I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line. — Steve Case

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it. — Hannah Kent

The deepest wretchedness often results from a perpetual continuation of petty trials. — L.G. Abell

I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit. — Mark Teixeira

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812. — Steve Vernon

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false! — Blaise Pascal

Wisdom: Oh, fantastic. We've got an army made up of fairies and Beatles, and we're fighting H. G. Wells' martians and bloody Jack the Rippers. Who's next? Dick Van Dyke? Mr Bean? John Cleese and his dead parrot? — Paul Cornell

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word. — Jamie Oliver

I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff ... what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like. — Jess C. Scott

You know, I'm not a revolutionary. — Julian Fellowes

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers. — Camille Paglia

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. — Fred W. Friendly

I hung up and fed myself a slug of Old Forester to brace my nerves for the interview. — Raymond Chandler

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else. — Pete Wentz