Rivenbark Obituary Quotes & Sayings

My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again. — Ana Ortiz

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name. — Eddie Adams

She is the only one who knows
of the Coldness: a feeling that comes sometimes when I'm
lying in bed, a black, empty feeling that knocks my breath
away and leaves me gasping as though I've just been
thrown in icy water. On nights like that - although it is wrong
and illegal - I think of those strange and terrible words, I
love you, and wonder what they would taste like in my
mouth, try to recall their lilting rhythm on my mother's
tongue. — Lauren Oliver

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. — Neil Gaiman

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons ... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway. — Charles Horner

America leads the world at present in golden-calf production. — Eugene H. Peterson

If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life's storms. — J. Vernon McGee

He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man. — Katherine Starbird

I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I really wanted to be, and in that search, like I think you do as an actor, you end up trying to define whatever that is, and I sort of said, "Oh well, searching spiritually in a way is interesting, and Eastern religion seems to be about a search." — Jake Gyllenhaal

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out. — Robin Williams