Top 100 Richards Quotes

#1. To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Keith Richards

#2. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.

Stephen Richards

#3. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.

Stephen Richards

#4. The more you give, the less you need.

Stephen Richards

#5. The public library is the great equaliser.

Keith Richards

#6. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Stephen Richards

#7. Resentment's appetite is never fulfilled.

Stephen Richards

#8. I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

Kevin Keegan

#9. Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.

Bob Richards

#10. Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything.

Stephen Richards

#11. Perhaps in body I am not quite as real as you," he said, then looked alive, making him once again seem real, even though she knew that if she tried to touch him, she could not. "But my thoughts and emotions are as real as yours. My soul, Mia Randall, is as real as yours.

Suzannah Daniels

#12. There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

David Adams Richards

#13. Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#14. Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Ann Richards

#15. Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

J. August Richards

#16. I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!

Stephen Richards

#17. The basis of Cosmic Ordering is the belief that the universe is not dead matter, but pure energy which responds to our vibrations and to our frequencies.

Stephen Richards

#18. On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

Elton John

#19. An empty mind is easy to feed.

Stephen Richards

#20. Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.

Stephen Richards

#21. Obviously it's hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!

Stephen Richards

#22. Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't.
- Jenna Richards

Julius Lester

#23. The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out. Everything has something to do with something; nothing is divorced. It becomes an experience,a feeling or a aconglomeration of experiences ...

Keith Richards

#24. If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#25. I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

J. August Richards

#26. Once you get very clear about the things that are the most important to you in your life, those things that truly give meaning and purpose to your existence, purging and de-cluttering will become a natural process.

Cary David Richards

#27. The superintending states no longer care what orders of knowledge they are collecting. They no longer care what knowledge is, so long as they have it. The state is neutral about knowledge so long as knowledge belongs to the state.

Thomas Richards

#28. A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all your life.

Keith Richards

#29. Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it's the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.

Nadege Richards

#30. It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.

Stephen Richards

#31. If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

Stephen Richards

#32. The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

Barry Richards

#33. Everyone in the place seen me nut him apart from the ref, it caught him on the blind side. I tried to nut him on the eyebrow so it would split open, but I got him on the forehead. The crowd turned right against me, but I made it to the last bell and lost on a unanimous decision.

Stephen Richards

#34. I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

J. August Richards

#35. The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

Stephen L. Richards

#36. Growing old is not for sissies.

Emilie Richards

#37. Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn here too.

Nadege Richards

#38. Eventually what was the superhuman becomes the common, the ordinary, the mundane.

Stephen Richards

#39. Understand that you and you alone create your own opportunities, whether they come to you in the form of a lottery ticket, or a promotion, you brought that into your life.

Stephen Richards

#40. Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Mary Caroline Richards

#41. I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

Keith Richards

#42. I'm good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well.

Erin Richards

#43. I could see the reflection of the moon on the water's surface, tantalisingly teasing me forward, that was my target ... swimming towards the moon and freedom. I could smell the brine and sense the power of the mass I was in, it engulfed me, yet I was one with it.

Stephen Richards

#44. What is life but playing with time?

Keith Richards

#45. In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him.

Stephen Richards

#46. And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.

Nadege Richards

#47. There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Denise Richards

#48. When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

Mark Richards

#49. Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be
blamed.

Keith Richards

#50. I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

Keith Richards

#51. He smiled at me shyly and took a step closer. I froze, heart pounding, as he put one hand on my cheek and leaned toward me. I swallowed, gazing up at him with what I hoped was an expectant (and not alarmed) expression. He bent his head toward mine and ...

J.M. Richards

#52. All things that exist form an endless area of quantum energy with infinite possibilities waiting to happen.

Stephen Richards

#53. All adults should strive to be more like children.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#54. I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman.

Erin Richards

#55. Barbarianism and finesse cannot be rolled into one, Pricey defeats this theory. The barbarianism born from his fight to make it in life, his finesse brought about by his sensitivity that was deprived of him when he was a child.

Stephen Richards

#56. We are all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf or skydiving. What matters is when the red light comes on.
Jerry Seinfeld to Michael Richards in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Jerry Seinfeld

#57. I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

Keith Richards

#58. Philosophers think, creators make!

Stephen Richards

#59. I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

Michael Richards

#60. Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.

Stephen Richards

#61. She may have your heart, but that's not the reason I love her," I say. "It's not just a physical connection. It's something deeper. You may be my Blood Mate, but she's my Soul Mate. That's just as powerful.

Elizabeth Richards

#62. I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

Ringo Starr

#63. I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

Bobby Keys

#64. Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong."

Mark Stevenson

#65. I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Ann Richards

#66. I discovered to my relief and delight that it "was" a gun in his pocket.

Justin Richards

#67. Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Keith Richards

#68. Great songs write themselves. You're just being led by the nose, or the ears. The skill is not to interfere with it too much. Ignore intelligence, ignore everything; just follow it where it takes you.

Keith Richards

#69. How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.

Stephen Richards

#70. I went for a private sitting with a clairvoyant and got some really good messages off him, but one thing that did frighten me was when he said, 'I can see a lot of fist fighting with you.

Stephen Richards

#71. I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

J. August Richards

#72. This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it. You can't truly be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes and the pinnacle of life can only be reached when one can carve their own path.

Nadege Richards

#73. My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

Sam Richards

#74. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

Stephen Richards

#75. It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it.

Stephen Richards

#76. In real life, you don't know what's going to happen to you, so why would your character know? It's liberating to play the emotion your character is feeling at the time and not know what's coming up. I like it.

Erin Richards

#77. Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.

Ann Richards

#78. I only get ill when I give up drugs.

Keith Richards

#79. Hardship is only easy to endure when it is someone else's!

Stephen Richards

#80. New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#81. I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

Jef I. Richards

#82. Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.

Stephen Richards

#83. Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Beah Richards

#84. I didn't want just any career, so I am not going to be just any nurse.

Denise Richards

#85. Love does not cost a thing, but it is priceless...

Stephen Richards

#86. What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

Stephen Richards

#87. It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.

Erin Richards

#88. Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

Ann Richards

#89. I'm an unpure purist, something like that.

Keith Richards

#90. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

Keith Richards

#91. You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

Keith Richards

#92. These women rob me of my mind. And I don't care.~Dr. Hugo Peralta

Kate Richards

#93. I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

Ann Richards

#94. I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#95. I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

Nikki Sixx

#96. We are energy, and like all energy, we are in constant change.

Stephen Richards

#97. What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

J. August Richards

#98. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

Stephen Richards

#99. Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before.

Rodney Richards

#100. Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

J. August Richards

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