Alice Ripley Quotes

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

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• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talk
  • Ring
  • Rabbits

• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Process

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• Nature hates calculators.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Hates

• Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Fame

• One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Movement
  • Leaders

• I do not have very much office experience.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Experience
  • Very
  • Office

• It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • God
  • Sense
  • Without

• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Different
  • Age
  • Reality

• Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Great

• Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.so trthen despererux died i n heaven and in peace

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Peace

• The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

  

  Vanity
  • Simplicity

• The day wears heavily, - why, then, ignore it; Peace is the soul's desire, - such thoughts restore it; The truth thou art, - it needs not implore it.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Art
  • Why
  • Truth

• When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Lost
  • Forest

• I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Up
  • World
  • Society

• In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,That snores when you pick it up.If the ghost cries, they carry itTo their lips and soothe it to sleepWith sounds. And yet, they wake it upDeliberately, by tickling with a finger.

  

  Craig Raine
  • Up

• Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new environment.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Environment
  • Advice

• You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Stop
  • Deep

• Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

  

  Geraldine Laybourne
  • Should
  • Civilization
  • Fronts

• None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart's guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life's true path, but viewing it from a distance.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Distance

• You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

  

  Alice Ripley