Rictus Quotes

#1. His smile was the rictus of a beast.

Salman Rushdie

#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. 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

#4. 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

#5. There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. Up! Up into man-thing nest! Up to their streets and their cellars! Up to their granaries and their stockyards! Up to their homes and their temples! All-all belongs to Rictus! All-all belongs to Vecteek!

C.L. Werner

#7. 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

#8. Only teasing', Death seemed to be saying over his shoulder with a rictus smile, with good humor and an oddly paternal affection. 'Take care of yourself, okay? We'll play again.

Barry Eisler

#9. I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

Rob Zerban

#10. That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#11. No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Keith Miller

#12. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Robert Metcalfe

#13. It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.

David Platt

#14. Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

Bodhidharma

#15. Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

Miranda July

#16. Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

Alexander Graham Bell

#17. I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.

Greg Cipes

#18. Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Patricia Hill Collins

#19. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1)

June Hunt

#20. The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

Richelle E. Goodrich