Quotes About Ricochet

#1. I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.

Christopher Buckley

#2. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. He shifts and my eyes shatter into thousands of pieces that ricochet around the room, capturing a million snapshots, a million moments in time. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Christopher Morley

#5. God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

Sylvia Plath

#6. How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom

Jodi Picoult

#7. Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

Walker Percy

#8. Summer sky swallowed colour, but the sky of late August made colour ricochet back to earth, and there were sharp edges on all the buildings and curbs and even on the leaves of the trees and on the impatiens in the flowerbeds of all the towns through which Wayne travelled to reach Wally Michelin.

Kathleen Winter

#9. Stephen Colbert has such a loyal following; I don't know if it's the same with Jay Leno; he really inspires love in people, and there can be a lucky ricochet of that for some people.

Lisa Hannigan

#10. Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#11. The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#12. If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Brian Eno

#13. Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I'm stricken
by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain
everythingness of everything, in cahoots
with the everythingness of everything else.
- From Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)

Diane Ackerman

#14. You can never tell how genes ricochet.

Cynthia Ozick

#15. One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

Denis Diderot

#16. We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.

Steve Maraboli

#17. Keep God in your heart like you keep money in the bank.

Neem Karoli Baba

#18. If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#19. Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#20. You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

Don DeLillo

#21. Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.

Anthony Liccione