Quotes About Rip Van Winkle

#1. Ours is a culture that dances on the edge of ephemerality. If our servers slept for too long or if we left our iPads unplugged for too long, we'd wake up like Rip Van Winkle to find all of our book culture erased.

Jason Merkoski

#2. Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#3. By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of them and putting them together. So it felt, actually, like one of those ideas that clicked for us, right away, on instinct.

Alex Kurtzman

#4. I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory - that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

Bowie Kuhn

#5. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.

Jaffe Cohen

#6. We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#7. Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

Judy Biggert

#8. The pumpkin itself is a symbol for mortality.

Seth Adam Smith

#9. I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head beneath these letters RIP, and close my eyes, according to our family's old practice of falling asleep in times of trouble, and hope to awaken, renewed and joyful, into a better time.

Salman Rushdie

#10. One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.

Marty Rubin

#11. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

#12. I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility. You

Matt Ruff

#13. I'm not good for a lot of things but I'm a good listener and I know what it means to feel.

Laure Lacornette

#14. As regards being dead, however, one of my main consolations has always been that I have the strongest intention of being an extremely active ghost. Let nobody make any mistake about that.

Siegfried Sassoon

#15. My question was:How did I go from merely seeing the dirty French Santa in a bar to being in his hotel room the next morning? And this presented me with an actual equation. How did one plus one equal old French Santa?

Augusten Burroughs

#16. Do we really fall in love repeatedly and feel it real every time, or we just pose the duplication of our first and foremost love we have ever experienced?
The question remains yet again, who is the beloved?

M.F. Moonzajer

#17. The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.

Seth Adam Smith

#18. In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind?

Wayne Dyer

#19. Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

Temple Grandin