Rhoderic Mirkin Quotes

#1. My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.

Nick Clegg

#2. I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.

Scott Raab

#3. I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Persis Khambatta

#4. Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.

Peter Viereck

#5. The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

George R. Stewart

#6. Between 'Orange' with Laverne, the show 'Transparent,' and Caitlyn Jenner, obviously we're in the middle of something enormous - a transgender movement. I'm just proud to be alive during this massive shift in the world.

Ruby Rose

#7. You'll need someone's help to get it. If people like you, they will be disposed to give you their time and their efforts. And the better the quality of rapport you have with them, the higher the level of their cooperation.

Nicholas Boothman

#8. I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

Art Linkletter

#9. Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.

Goodman Ace

#10. A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter.
Anything can happen, though.
Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

David Wroblewski

#12. Michael knew now what was happening to him. He knew he was going to be naughty.

P.L. Travers

#13. I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

Richard Neutra

#14. A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone

Larry David

#15. He would behave in the same way, say the same things, give himself completely to anybody who came along, anybody and everybody who liked to appeal to him. It was despicable, a very insidious form of prostitution.

D.H. Lawrence