Riskin Quotes & Sayings

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds. — Robert Riskin

If you're afraid to fail you'll never succeed — NightBits

People get their benefits as individuals but we all pay the cost together, same as the doomed mice of Gough island. The problem is not just fossil fuel emissions either, humans are killing rhinos, elephants, gorillas, and countless other endangered animals for no reason other than to make a few bucks. Put another way, those of us in the Western world have allowed things to get so unfair that while I stop at a Star Bucks drive-through on the way home to get a fifth of my daily required calories from a sugar-filled ice drink, someone on the other side of the world is eating an endangered fruit bat because they have no other way to get their protein. That is where acting naturally has gotten humans so far. — Dan Riskin

How did you feel feeding doughnuts to a horse? Had a kick out of it, huh? Got a big laugh. Did you ever think of feeding doughnuts to a human being? No! — Robert Riskin

They all choose priorities. Even they got hurt and hurt each other, at the end they all choose whats important for them — Winna Efendi

I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again. — Pete Rose

I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do. — Fay Wray

You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time? — Robert Riskin

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?! — Fay Wray

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. — Maria Montessori

When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot. — Shlomo Riskin

Russians understand the rhythm of despair. — Suzanne Massie

Our instincts weren't built to handle the kind of power our species wields over the planet, nature has been playing rough with us for so long, maybe it is no surprise we are being so rough with her now. — Dan Riskin

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live. — Robert Riskin

It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level. — Nan Shepherd

Art is 110 percent sweat. — Robert Riskin

Over the course of one's life, Julia, there are actions that pave the way for everything else that comes after, good or bad. Simple moments: Turning right instead of left on the street and running headlong into the man you'll marry. Choosing a ham sandwich instead of soup at the deli and choking on it. Diving into a pool of water and cracking your head on the bottom, paralyzing yourself for life. — Wendy Webb

To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barking dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy who's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you, tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork. — Robert Riskin

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well. — Charles De Lint

...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves. — Dan Riskin