Ritcher Quotes & Sayings

Good girl doesn't exist; you just have to choose between bad and worse. — M.F. Moonzajer

One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful. — Dustin Moskovitz

The eye-roll is a 10.5 on the Ritcher. The Big One. California has slipped into the ocean. — Jandy Nelson

It's just that it's a good idea not to let him have your phone number unless you possess an industrial-grade answering machine." "What? Why's that?" "Well, he's one of those people who can only think when he's talking. When he has ideas, he has to talk them out to whoever will listen. Or, if the people themselves are not available, which is increasingly the case, their answering machines will do just as well. He just phones them up and talks at them. He has one secretary whose sole job is to collect tapes from people he might have phoned, transcribe them, sort them and give him the edited text the next day in a blue folder. — Douglas Adams

I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not going anywhere- just like the spider up in the corner, the dust on the sill, and the cat I buried in the backyard. -Jamaica Ritcher. — Jay Allison

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. — Christian Lous Lange

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. — Nelson Mandela

Being a winner sometimes has little to do with the score. If your players seize the opportunity to be better today than they were yesterday in softball, in math, in music, in anything worth doing in life, regardless of natural ability, that will make them winners on and off the field. — Lawrence Hsieh

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest. — Ambrose Bierce

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. — Johan Huizinga

Don't mix wine and women. — Cesare Pavese