Rene Ricard Quotes

You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very skinny.

Rene Ricard

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• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Think
  • Honor
  • Most

• Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • People
  • You
  • Travel

• It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Key

• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Woman

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Home
  • Me
  • Run

• Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Food
  • Young

• I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Tired

• I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Scholar

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Home

• Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Writing
  • Church
  • Singing

• I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Success
  • Small
  • New

• I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Movie
  • First
  • Wrote

• But if you say: 'How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?' then I say: 'How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?'

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• The best relatively contemporary portrayal of a courtesan that I've ever seen was probably in 'Children of Paradise,' a film that was made during the Nazi occupation of France, made in secret actually.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Children
  • Paradise

• Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • People

• He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Man

• I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

  

  Keith Olbermann

• You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very skinny.

  

  Rene Ricard
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Skinny