Rita Rita Quotes & Sayings

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. — Rita Mae Brown

I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life. — Rita Dove

People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five ... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number. — Rita Moreno

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. — Rita Rudner

Waiters and waitresses are becoming nicer and much more caring. I used to pay my check, they would say "Thank you." That's now escalated into "You care care of yourself, now." The other day I paid my check and the waiter said, "Don't put off that mammogram." — Rita Rudner

I've always been into looking different. — Rita Ora

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture. — Rita Ora

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. — Rita Dove

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool. — Rita Coolidge

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of. — Michael Caine

When God made man she was practicing. — Rita Mae Brown

England is an aquarium, not a nation. — Rita Mae Brown

I am very sorry, sir, but I cannot give you the Windsor crown," Rita said calmly. "I do not have it, and even if I did, it is not mine to give away."
"I don't know if you heard me correctly," the sergeant repeated, his words falling like bricks. "I said, hand it over."
Rita smiled serenely and stood, holding her thin hands clasped in front of her. Nora glanced up at her, a worried look in her eyes.
"Quite possibly it was you who did not understand my reply. I said, I am very sorry, but I am afraid I cannot give you the crown. But I can offer you a nice cup of tea, and I just baked a batch of cheddar scones."
A muffled snicker went through the room. I could even see Wesley, who stood by the door, trying not to smile. — Galaxy Craze

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover. — Rita Rudner

In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man in the whole country; the country didn't know it, that's all. — Rita Mae Brown

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions. — Rita Ora

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record. — Rita Coolidge

There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts. — Rita Gelman

Its an honor to be a part of such a legendary group of stars representing Max Factor, such as Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe, ... Im so excited to start working on the campaign. — Carmen Electra

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love — Rita Mae Brown

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. — Rita Ora

But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship. — Rita Zahara

A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life! — Rita Ora

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England. — Rita Mae Brown

I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK. — Rita Mae Brown

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. — Rita Rudner

Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard. — Rita Williams-Garcia

We're trying to break yokes. You're trying to make one for yourself. — Rita Williams-Garcia

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard. — Rita Mae Brown

I wished I could get up in the morning and look at the day the way I used to when I was a child. I wished I could walk down the streets and not hear those constant, abrasive sounds from the mouths of the opposite sex. Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself. — Rita Mae Brown

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. — Rita Rudner

Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has. — Rita Gonzalez

I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money! — Rita Rudner

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good. — Rita Rudner

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't. — Rita Ora

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic. — Rita Dove

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa - my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault - as she pounded her fist to her chest three times as if pounding shut a door to keep her guilt from escaping. — Rita Leganski

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. — Rita Dove

I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy. — Rita Ora

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life. — Rita Moreno

Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax. — Rita Rudner

Now I've done it. Only one line to say I love you. And I do. Be safe. XO Rita — Suzanne Hayes

I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me. — Rita Webb

I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually. — Rita Dove

One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good! — Joe Jonas

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too. — Rita Ora

From Time for College - Mr. Chiardi & Other Stories

It was time for Junior to go to college. He'd sprouted pubic hair and was eyeing all the girls.
"I want to go to college," he said.
"Yes," I replied, "It's time."
His mother, my wife, was resigned to the fact that it was time for Junior to leave the nest. She sat on a stool at the granite kitchen counter, spiked coffee beside her, reading The New York Times. She looked almost real. — Rita Buckley Aka Charles Maxwell

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey. — Rita Coolidge

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy. — Rita Wilson

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. — Rita Rudner

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. — Rita Mae Brown

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value. — Rita Hayworth

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts. — Rita Coolidge

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it. — Rita Mae Brown

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level. — Rita Wilson

Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub. — Rita Ora

The mind can take in many things, but it cannot take in God. — Rita Leganski

I had a lot of those memories clicking before me like projector slides in the dark. Lots of pictures, smells and sounds flashing in and out. — Rita Williams-Garcia

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. — Rita Dove

I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't been in that situation? ... One could look at Oedipus, or at my character Augustus, as a cynical schemer who did everything because he was hungry for power. But that's just too easy. I'm more interested in how humans can embody conflicting goals and emotions. — Rita Dove

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers. — Rita Mae Brown

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins. — Rita Dove

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. — Rita Dove

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer! — Rita Mae Brown

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge. — Rita Coolidge

Oh great, you too. So now I wear this label 'Queer' emblazoned across my chest. Or I could always carve a scarlet 'L' on my forehead. Why does everyone have to put you in a box and nail the lid on it? I don't know what I am - polymorphous and perverse. Shit. I don't even know if I'm white. I'm me. That's all I am and all I want to be. Do I have to be something? — Rita Mae Brown

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog. — Rita Rudner

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I? — Rita Ora

Men who are going bald often wear baseball caps. — Rita Rudner

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. — Rita Mae Brown

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. — Rita Dove

One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor. — Rita Ora

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy. — Rita Rudner

Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers. — Rita Rudner

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls. — Rita Mae Brown

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!" — Rita Rudner

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek. — Rita Wilson

I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music. — Rita Ora

I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams. — Rita Ora

Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know. — Rita Ora

If fucking were graceful,desire an alibi. — Rita Dove

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive. — Rita Ora

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it. — Rita Dove

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening. — Robert Osborne

It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor. — Yasmine Bleeth

I have had young fascinations but never love. — Rita Ora

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. — Rita Rudner

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. — Rita Dove

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave. — Rita Mae Brown

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. — Rita Mae Brown

I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on. — Rita Ora

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of. — Rita Mae Brown

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. — Rita Dove

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people. — Rita Mae Brown

Men don't feel the urge to get married as quickly as women do because their clothes all button and zip in the front. Women's dresses usually button and zip in the back. We need men emotionally and sexually, but we also need men to help us get dressed. — Rita Rudner

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it. — Rita Rudner

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all. — Rita Williams-Garcia

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective. — Ben Bernanke

Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano. — Rita Rudner