Rip Quotes

• As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Free
  • Rip

• In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become creatures that rip up the dust as they gallop across the Great Plains.

  

  Jerry Spinelli
  • Up
  • Great
  • Alone

• It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Strong

• Pauline Kael said that Rip Torn could get angrier faster than any other American actor: that he could go from zero to 10 in 1.8 seconds or something like that.

  

  John Heard
  • American
  • Rip

• Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Rip

• What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Champion

• My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Present
  • Dance
  • Surfing

• I liked being home playing in front of my people, but I just did not like the situation because I was playing shooting guard, and that is not my position. I would play it if someone like Rip got hurt, but to do it for an entire season, that is not my position. I got it done when I was asked to do. But inside, I know that is not me.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • People
  • Done
  • Home

• With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like, "Ah, you dirty old dog!" I'm saying it more like that. I'm still ripping. I'm ready to rip. I'll make a bunch more records and have a nice time. We'll see what happens.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Dog

• For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn't realise.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Art
  • Rip

• I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • People
  • Long
  • Cutting

• I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Evil

• I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?

  

  George Michael
  • Time
  • Love
  • Death

• If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

  

  Boris Beizer
  • Build
  • Test
  • Rip

• I am going to try to rip the economic guts out of Indiana. But we're going to do it methodically and aggressively.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Rip

• One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Inspired
  • Modern
  • Rip

• My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Rip

• Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Hate
  • Differences
  • Criticize

• It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and see a rip in the fabric of your dreams for every one of those years. Suddenly you're threadbare to the world.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Dreams
  • Rip
  • Irrevocably

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