John Ridge Quotes

#1. Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.

John Fusco

#2. Spontaneousness is thought to be madness. Formalities are thought to be sanity. Just the opposite is the reality.

Osho

#3. I tied a crust of bread to my belt, and with Carlo set out for the upper slopes of the Pilot Peak Ridge, and had a good day, notwithstanding the care of seeking the silly runaways.

John Muir

#4. I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Salman Rushdie

#5. Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Frank Zappa

#6. Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

Tom Felton

#7. A child being able to clearly and confidently articulate thoughts, ideals, and opinions have better self-esteem and they learn to deal with complex problems more effectively.

Hannah Raybans

#8. The words I heard from you today, are said when there's nothing left to say. What I would give to make you stay, I would give it all away.

Lang Leav

#9. Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

Meher Baba

#10. No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

John Doolittle

#11. If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

Italo Calvino

#12. Everyday is a gift and a very special day; so let us celebrate with joy and profound gratitude.

Debasish Mridha

#13. The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

John Ruskin

#14. Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

Jennifer Harrison

#15. There is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source; that a wrong done to one man is a wrong to society and to the world.

John Rollin Ridge

#16. Yeats knew nothing about life: it was all symbols
& Wordsworthian egotism: Yeats on Cemetery Ridge
would not have been scared, like you & me,
he would have been, before the bullet that was his,
studying the movements of the birds,
said disappointed & amazed Henry.

John Berryman

#17. Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

Tom Ridge

#18. John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

David Letterman

#19. Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Brian Chesky

#20. Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.

Serge Schmemann