Rick Spleen Quotes

#1. My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

Jack Dee

#2. What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

Anselm Kiefer

#3. There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

Jean Cocteau

#4. Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. Being-'subject' means taking up a position from which an actor can make the transition from theory to practice. This transition usually takes place once an actor has found the motive that liberates them from hesitation and disinhibits them for action.

Peter Sloterdijk

#6. If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you.

Lance Armstrong

#7. There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

Micky Dolenz

#8. A song? What laughter or what song
Can this house remember?
Do flowers and butterflies
Belong to a blind December?

Robert Graves

#9. Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#10. People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

Renata Adler

#11. I stepped inside. It smelled like cleaning fluid and salt: sanitized tears. Not mine, I thought. "You

Kerry Kletter

#12. Cant we own each other?
If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this is what it would feel like.

Cora Carmack

#13. Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

Paul David Tripp