Wyrley Ripper Quotes & Sayings

The man doesn't acknowledge you as you sit down because the man knows more about the unoccupied seat than you do. For him, you imagine, it is more like breath than wonder; he has had to think about it so much you wouldn't call it thought. — Claudia Rankine

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal. — Caroline M. Nichols Churchill

Isabella and Ben starting spending a lot of time together, but he never really wanted to do anything. — Jennifer Close

Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it
-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle — John D. Barrow

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. ( ... ) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear. — Alex Garland

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. — Oscar Wilde

Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know. — Lindsay Wagner

Life is too short and hell is too hot to just play church. — Larry Osborne

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena. — Rita Mae Brown

The very word "change" has changed. When I was young
and not just because I was young
we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away
firmly but kindly
the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss. — Neal Ascherson