Rick Shapiro Quotes

#1. Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. In the absence of a confirmed fact, rumors are usually sanctified as the truth. And that is what goes out there in the media.

Nitin Sharma

#3. The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes.

Paullina Simons

#4. I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE ...

Janis Joplin

#5. Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease spatters from frying bacon.

Dennis Vickers

#6. In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner

Michael Jackson

#7. I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

Elizabeth I

#8. Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

Michael Pitt

#9. Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

Patricia Polacco

#10. And yet most people would be lost without the idea that life increases in value the more it resembles our own.

Frank Schatzing

#11. My bullshit was that I adore you and I don't have fingers or eyes how to deal with it.

Rick Shapiro

#12. The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Dagobert D. Runes

#13. Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

Anne Sexton

#14. sometimes I hate you,"
she said.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.

Nick Hornby

#16. How close, Frost?"
"Real close, boss. I swear on my life."
Joker slowly looked up, eyes glistening with black hope. The fire in his madness was still burning.
"If you're going to swear, swear on something that matters.

Marv Wolfman