Rictus Grin Quotes

#1. It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

John Niven

#2. Ethan stood there, his face blue and wrinkled, his lips pulled into a rictus grin. In one hand, he clutched a butcher knife. Blood splattered his hands and face. 'Mommy slipped,' he whispered, and plunged the knife into my leg

Julie Kagawa

#3. Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

William Hazlitt

#4. Every morning she'd crick herself down onto the flimsy rug by her bed and pray, but it was actually a promise: Today I won't yell, I won't cry, I won't clench up into a ball like I am waiting for a blow to level me. I will enjoy today. She might make it to lunch before she went sour.

Gillian Flynn

#5. My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Robert Webb

#6. The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#7. We must turn from worthless things towards faith in God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. The grin on his face wasn't the affable, friendly sort; instead, it was the sociopathic rictus of the irretrievably, bug-fuckeringly insane

Kevin Hearne

#9. The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

George Herbert

#10. Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Lucretius

#11. I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!

Pearl S. Buck

#12. A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

Joseph Roth

#13. Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

Ayn Rand

#14. They've called me a great many things over the years, but my name is Nefarian Serpine.

Derek Landy

#15. Kids; 10 seconds of joy, 30 years of misery

Tom Arnold

#16. Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

Andy Andrews

#17. I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

Terrence Malick