Ristrettos Quotes & Sayings

Ah, well, people can be a bit stupid abou' their pets, said Hagrid wisely. Behind him, Buckbeak spat a few ferret bones onto Hagrid's pillow. — J.K. Rowling

Novelty in all things is charming. — Ovid

Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen. — Rick Riordan

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood. — Bear Bryant

I want to believe that things sometimes matter. I want to believe that what we had when we were children we can still have when we grow older. That there are some things in life that are worth holding on to. — Ashley Cowger

Words are important for the mind, but the notes are for the soul. — Gil Scott-Heron

You can no longer hide from me. I am your soul ache come to guide you home. — Karen Clark

There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them. — Maya Angelou

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet. — Jonathan Lethem

What's lightly hid is deepest understood, — Richard Wilbur

The twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry! — Richard Cobden

I admire Calvin more than I do any of the Calvinists, Edwards included. — Marilynne Robinson