Ritacco Center Quotes & Sayings

All this home-computer gaming, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, now this Xbox thing, maybe I just want the boys to see what blowing aliens away was like in the olden days. — Thomas Pynchon

The distance between a man and pride is the distance between himself and destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. — Jeff Bezos

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots. — Jonathan King

Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you. — Marty Rubin

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed. — Martin Heidegger

Pissed-off people need back rubs and they also need gym memberships. — Augusten Burroughs

I'm not sure what it would mean to have "made it." Made what? Yes, I can make a decent living in show business, so if that's the criteria, then I've made it. But that doesn't feel that important to me. The stuff that matters to me are the new challenges. I know that sounds hokey, but it's true. — Michael Ian Black

slanderous diarrhea of the mouth. — Joe Couch

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is. — Julie Walters

Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution. — Mark Epstein

Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that ... is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as projected to us by satellite ... the greatness of the experience goes beyond your ethical and aesthetic judgment, cutting you free from the binding ego of yourself. With the diminishment of your ego, the less there is of you, the more you see the sublime. — Jen Wang

Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped. — Mickey Rooney

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. — Jose Saramago

This wasn't just another company - this was the biggest company by far making subprime loans. And it was engaged in just blatant fraud. They should have taken the CEO out and hung him up by his fucking testicles. — Michael Lewis