Alice Ripley Quotes

I cry at Kodak commercials.

Alice Ripley

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • You
  • Successful

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Job
  • America

• I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Permanent

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Devil
  • Adversity

• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Quality
  • Things
  • Volatility

• There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Me
  • Supported

• I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Listen
  • Him
  • Rush

• There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• By night an atheist half believes a God.

  

  Edward Young
  • God
  • Night
  • Atheist

• During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Moon

• I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Brave

• Adopting this lifestyle and opting to exercise has helped me a lot in life.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Life
  • Exercise

• I don't think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.

  

  Mark Frost

• I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Music
  • Real

• The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Purpose
  • Course
  • Enhancement

• Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Soul
  • Relationship
  • Fall

• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Practice
  • Gods
  • Trade

• The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the church has some self-examination to do, where often women are perceived as a threat or viewed as temptresses.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Church
  • Assault
  • Globe

• I cry at Kodak commercials.

  

  Alice Ripley