Richelson Intelligence Quotes

#1. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.

William Ritter

#2. If the theater is the refuge of the conversationalist whose friend is mute and whose mistress is insipid, then conversation, even the most exquisite, is the pleasure of men without imagination.

Marcel Proust

#3. I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.

Joseph Ole Lenku

#4. In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

Robbie Williams

#5. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets. Colleen

Jonathan Franzen

#6. If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic.

Nicholas Meyer

#7. I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.

Fergie

#8. I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

Isabel Allende

#9. The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#10. While we may never achieve closure in our view of the world, it seems extraordinarily likely that our descendants will look upon many of our beliefs as both impossibly quaint and suicidally stupid.

Sam Harris

#11. If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.

Dana Cowin

#12. Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

George Weigel

#13. The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Lewis Thomas

#14. Caring is not bossing somebody around; it only shows you're very insensitive to other peoples' feelings".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa