Rippy Quotes & Sayings

My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'? — Patrick Henry

I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results. — Shakuntala Devi

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion. — Michael Pitt

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. — Plautus

Falling in love is as simple as opening your eyes, when you see the one. — Mark Donnelly

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. — John Major

I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience. — Roy Romer

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too. — William Cowper

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. — Roddy Doyle

You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them. — Neil Strauss

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. — Wolfman Jack

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks
in a circle, of course.
This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something
life, love, passion
so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him! — Jens Peter Jacobsen

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around. — Rob Sheffield