Ritchies Quotes & Sayings

The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control. — Mark Zandi

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death - examined it, wrestled with it, accepted it - as a physician and a patient. He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality. — Paul Kalanithi

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun. — Iain Banks

As Orwell's pigs might have said, blue jeans good, new dress better. — Stephen King

If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved. — Michelle Franklin

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader. — Cynthia Ozick

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908. — Jeff Bezos

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. — E.H. Gombrich

Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now. — Neil Pasricha

You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line. — Mike D'Antoni

Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids. — Robert Ressler

When you can look into the face of another human being and you have enough light in you to recognize your brother or you sister. Until then it is night, and darkness is still with us. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the league. That is the main one for us. — John Terry