Lola Ridge Quotes

#1. I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.

Meghan Daum

#2. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Denis Diderot

#3. I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Tyra Banks

#4. Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

Sandra Oh

#5. Life You have been good to me ... You have not made yourself too dear to juggle with.

Lola Ridge

#6. I shall know you, secrets by the litter you have left and by your bloody footprints.

Lola Ridge

#7. You - who are smarter than cruise ships - can empathize, but also, however, you cannot.

from "Cruise Ship Disaster Empathy

Forest Lewis

#8. I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.

Heather O'Rourke

#9. If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

Bill Maher

#10. Better
while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.

Lola Ridge

#11. As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art
What dreams have these to hide from death!

Lola Ridge

#12. You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

Larry Wall

#13. Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.

Cleveland Amory

#14. Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Brian Tracy

#15. Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.

Lola Ridge

#16. Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

Lemony Snicket

#17. Sometimes, when I'm alone, I wonder if it really counts as being alone, since I am covered in millions of other living organisms.

Travis J. Dahnke

#18. Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.

Lola Ridge

#19. Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

Regina Brett

#20. Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge