Rick Yancey Quotes

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

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• I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Group

• Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • God
  • Real

• I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Streets
  • Grind
  • Sit

• I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Vegas
  • Bear

• Even the gods love jokes.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Gods
  • Jokes

• I don't think the Americans by and large putted very well, ... and we're only 2 down.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Think
  • Americans
  • Well

• You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because' cards. They can't even ask you why you did it.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Asks

• If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

  

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Enough

• Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

  

  Alan Russell
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Cut

• In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful burst of fire had occurred within the space of a minute after the beginning of actual hostilities.

  

  Billy Bishop
  • Fight
  • Machines
  • Hostilities

• A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

  

  Katie Salen
  • Player
  • Games
  • Conflict

• My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn't spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Money
  • Trouble
  • Parent

• For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part-by fitting our civilization to the mountain.

  

  Benton MacKaye
  • Humans
  • Destiny
  • Civilizations

• All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

  

  James Hubert Blake
  • Music
  • Read
  • Primitive

• I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked at the most primitive thing of all, 3D floating masses out in space, and look at how the space between them changed because of the gravitational wave coming between them.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Changed
  • Because
  • Primitive

• When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Primitive
  • Civilizations