Alice Ripley Quotes

'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.

Alice Ripley

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Mind
  • Cool
  • Seeing

• If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Family
  • Job

• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Father
  • Me
  • Religious

• I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Technology

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • You
  • Government
  • Security

• I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Women
  • Woman
  • English

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty

• When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • School
  • Money
  • Job

• I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Project

• The burden which is well borne becomes light.

  

  Ovid
  • Light
  • Well
  • Burden

• First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • House
  • Sleep
  • First

• The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Technology
  • Search

• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

  

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger
  • Good
  • Habit

• Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.

  

  Martin Lewis Perl
  • Art
  • Science

• The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Ocean
  • Rocks
  • Basket

• I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It's not really necessary; there's a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term 'Knives and Pens' to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Writing
  • Kids

• So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Think
  • Police
  • Discovers

• 'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Habit