Raphy Quotes

#1. Patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all
even as we forge different individual choices within them
just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

Gloria Steinem

#2. You're only as happy as your unhappiest child. --Millie in Zemsta

Victoria Brown

#3. Hungry bellies have no cars.

Francois Rabelais

#4. There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance. Don't fool yourselves - it's all adding up and one of these days we're going to pay the bill for it. I hope it's not in you children's time.

Harper Lee

#5. Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.

James Wood

#6. Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. Political power without economic power is sterile.

Louis O. Kelso

#8. I do love thee so,
That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven

William Shakespeare

#9. I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.

Alan Borovoy

#10. I have the philosophy of yes. If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.

Sylvester McCoy

#11. When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

Oliver Jackson-Cohen

#12. I'm pretty short-tempered, you butthead. But I guess I gotta wait a little while before I can blow up at yah.

Kaori Yuki

#13. Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#14. I chuckled at this passage from Dr. Tempe Brennan in "Bones Never Lie" by Kathy Reichs: "Back home, I ate Bojangles chicken with Bird and watched a rerun of 'Bones.' For some reason, the cat is nuts about Hodgins.

Kathy Reichs