Ronnell Quotes & Sayings

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves. — Isaac Barrow

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here. — Gary Snyder

I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine. — Karen Traviss

The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood. — Ronnell D. Porter

How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not? — Gregg Easterbrook

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me. — Gordon B. Hinckley

when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights. — Grace Metalious

He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When I say something, this thing immediately and definitively loses its importance. When I write it down, it also loses it, but sometimes gains another importance. — Franz Kafka

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes. — Thomas Jefferson

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that. — Robert Redford

I was born in the Chi fo sho' and raised there till I was like 15. I then went on the road with X [DMX] and then moved to New York. I've moved to L.A. since then. I really have been bouncing around since 15. — Yung Berg