Ritman Jewel Quotes & Sayings

I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse! — Carole Gill

The CDC reported that 88,000 adults a year die of alcohol consumption. — Susan Cheever

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles] ... I'm ready. — Elliott Smith

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities. — Miuccia Prada

Noses to the wind, we inhaled a farrago of scents: charcoal and jasmine, rotting fruit and eucalyptus, gasoline and ammonia, a swirling belch from the city's poorly irrigated gut. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

And since you seem to be puttin' a lotta stock into what everyone thinks, thought I'd share straight from the mouth of a member of the peanut gallery. — Kristen Ashley

As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. "No, we can't do that." "No, that's not in the budget." "No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar." What kind of way is that to live? — Tina Fey

She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all. — Bill Bryson

While maximizers and perfectionists both have very high standards, I think that perfectionists have very high standards that they don't expect to meet, whereas maximizers have very high standards that they do expect to meet. Which may explain why we found that those who score high on perfectionism, unlike maximizers, are not depressed, regretful, or unhappy. — Barry Schwartz

If Hitler's still alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical. — Larry Gelbart

The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. — Elizabeth Gaskell