Riton Quotes & Sayings

And I kept thinking, over and over, is this what it feels like to go insane? — Jay Asher

Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art no more belongs to the People and the Party than it once belonged to the aristocracy and the patron. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake. — Julian Barnes

Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao. — Jung Chang

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.
Luck was against me. I saw no specters. — Gail Carson Levine

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.
-Sonia — Neal Shusterman

Progress is the realization of utopia. — Oscar Wilde

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's. — Jayson Williams

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it. — Damian Barr

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one. — June Foray

It's not the load you carry but how you carry it. — Della Reese