Alice Ripley Quotes

I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.

Alice Ripley

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Thoughts
  • Language

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Creativity

• Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Past
  • Wall
  • Advertising

• You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Commitment

• Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Never
  • Mine

• I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Career
  • You
  • Rest

• I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Song
  • Lyric

• A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Environment
  • Story
  • Someone

• My cheat meals aren't even that exciting.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Exciting
  • Even
  • Cheat

• Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Business
  • Risk
  • Financial

• Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • School
  • Career

• In the beginning, he taught you how to hold your fingers, use your head, hold your shoulders, how you glissade, bourre - the exact way he wanted you to do the steps. It was relearning the whole Balanchine technique.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Way
  • You
  • Beginning

• I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Women
  • Love

• I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Man
  • Best
  • Railroad

• We would only multiply the number of victims. Our duty is to strengthen the state and defend the people, why, then, should we publish your book.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • People
  • Why
  • Book

• There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Common

• I like Church furniture.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Church

• With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to film this.' With graphic novels, you can have that alien invasion you've always wanted to see.

  

  John Ridley
  • Up
  • Worry
  • Alien

• I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.

  

  Alice Ripley