Geoff Rickly Quotes

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Geoff Rickly

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Bad

• Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Want
  • Information

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Today

• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • You
  • Learn
  • Actor

• We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Friends
  • America
  • Old Friends

• In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

  

  Edwin Morgan
  • People
  • City

• If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Why
  • Interesting

• Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

  

  David Hume
  • Small
  • Sea
  • Ambition

• I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Important
  • Together
  • Single

• I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Remember

• [On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.

  

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
  • Black
  • Door

• I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

  

  Byung Hun
  • Lost
  • Looks
  • Weight

• But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Passion

• The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Directions
  • Deserving
  • Virute

• I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Design
  • Wall
  • Mountains

• How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Sex
  • Knows
  • Universal

• No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Class
  • Benefits
  • Particular

• Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

  

  Geoff Rickly
  • Virtue
  • Class
  • Universal