Ravenscroft Quotes

#1. The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Rob Sheffield

#2. A real relationship doesn't properly begin until the NRE burns away. That's when you have to start dealing with this person as an all-around human being, replete with irritating little habits. When disillusion sets in, love can begin.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#3. Relationships tend to be flawed because they are made up of inherently flawed components, mere human beings.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#4. When you begin with the premise "I treat everyone equally," you have already blinkered yourself from seeing where you don't, or can't, or shouldn't. There is no way to treat two people equally, because they are each unique, with respective strengths and weaknesses.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#5. Polyamorous people are wary of having others' values inflicted upon themselves, and so tend to stay very far away from making such pronouncements, to the point that they will actively ignore predatory behavior that is affecting their own community.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#6. When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#7. We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

#8. How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?

Honorius Augustodunensis

#9. If Coca-Cola can clean up and old coin like that, just think what a wonderful job it will do of keeping my intestines clear,' and my family and I have been drinking it ever since.

Terry Ravenscroft

#10. As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.

Pythagoras

#11. A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others

Dennis Prager

#12. My life had gone to bits and I was so unrecognizable to myself that I probably couldn't have picked me out of a police lineup.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#14. In a sane world, a term like "chronic crisis" would be instantly seen by anone as an oxymoron. Nevertheless, that's the state that many of us Western Worlders live in, provoking crisis after crisis so that we can justify our dis-ease rather than addressing that directly.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#15. In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#16. You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.

Keiichi Tsuchiya