Ripskirt Quotes & Sayings

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told. — Ward Churchill

The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812. — Dave Barry

don't you love him?" He found himself standing right behind her, so close he could smell the pine scent in her hair. He coughed self-consciously. "Is there . . . — Kara Jaynes

If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's true, he did look like the hero in all this, and for the most part, he was. What he did for this girl was a lot, but I knew from experience that lies have a way of coming back to haunt you. He may have done everything with the best intentions, but he still may not be able to escape how this all began. — Angela Richardson

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible. — Steven Curtis Chapman

A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. — Barbara Kingsolver

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't. — Eli Siegel

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that. — Larry Carlton

The woman who died night after night
and her dying was a long goodbye,
a train that never left. — Octavio Paz

Perhaps I can make you understand. Let's start from the beginning. A man is hired to give advice to the readers of a newspaper. The job is a circulation stunt and the whole staff considers it a joke. He welcomes the job, for it might lead to a gossip column, and anyway he's tired of being a leg man. He too considers the job a joke, but after several months at it, the joke begins to escape him. He sees that the majority of the letters are profoundly humble pleas for moral and spiritual advice, and they are inarticulate expressions of genuine suffering. He also discovers that his correspondents take him seriously. For the first time in his life, he is forced to examine the values by which he lives. This examination shows him that he is the victim of the joke and not its perpetrator. — Nathanael West