Riproaring Quotes & Sayings

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin. — Gail Carriger

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering. — Thomas Woods

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part. — Jean M. Auel

Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve. — Basho Matsuo

Always keep learning! — Nicole C. Engard

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep lowing concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. — Jefferson Bethke

Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician's trickery? — Kazuo Ishiguro

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public. — William Empson

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. — K.A. Applegate

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly. — David Eddings

I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want. — Andrew Sullivan