Ravio Quotes

#1. If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

Francis Quarles

#2. Look, gentlemen, look at how our young men are shooting themselves - oh, without the least Hamletian question of 'what lies beyond,

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

Etta James

#4. The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

Jean Giraudoux

#5. They speak to me, not in words, but in action.
They tell me that life goes on.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#6. Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Denise Levertov

#7. To despise flowers is to offend God.

Alexandre Dumas

#8. Shine brightly your light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Alexander Hamilton

#10. Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

George A. Sheehan

#11. Never be disagreeable just because you disagree.

John Wooden

#12. I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Blake Shelton

#13. You warped me. I was a perfectly normal-
-drug addicted bisexual hooker-fucking criminal.
-perfectly normal sensible man with normal sensible urges
before you.

Richard Rider