Ransom Riggs Quotes

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

Ransom Riggs

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• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • War
  • Politics
  • Tool

• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Creative

• The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Hate
  • First Amendment

• I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Science

• In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Play

• I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Kind

• Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Time
  • Long
  • Feeling

• One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Stop
  • Leadership

• The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

  

  Don McLean
  • High
  • Fall
  • Musical

• If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Ifs

• Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Wonder

• Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

  

  Emile Zola
  • Dream
  • Regret
  • Firsts

• For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Girl
  • Technology
  • Promise

• When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Men
  • Listening
  • Modern

• I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

  

  Cathy Horyn
  • Writing

• After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.

  

  William Henry Bragg
  • Done
  • Week
  • Realizing

• One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Alone
  • Love Is
  • Lifetime

• I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Together
  • Wanted
  • Shows

• Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Realizing
  • Lifetime
  • Tonight