Riis Quotes

#1. Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.

H.W. Brands

#2. Svava: "Rule number one: Never make a fool of yourself."
Riis: "Rule number two: Never be a burden to any one."
Svava: "Rule number three: Always be in the fashion.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#3. Jacob Riis in his How the Other Half Lives

David McCullough

#4. The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob Riis

#5. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis

#6. Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

Jacob A. Riis

#7. The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make ... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

Larry Clark

#8. He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

Greg Chappell

#9. It's not possible to run away from yourself. Unless, of course, you're schizophrenic and can take holidays outside your mind.

Fennel Hudson

#10. How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?

Jacob A. Riis

#11. The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

Jim Hightower

#12. When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Jacob Riis

#13. So how was it? Did it hurt? Was he gentle? How many times did y'all do it?

Annie Brewer

#14. Living in the moment was far better than living by a script.

Lisa De Jong

#15. In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.

Jacob A. Riis

#16. Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Horace

#17. I'm struggling to take ownership of this new person I call me. But everyday brings me closer. And I'm glad I got to know her at all.

Ellen Hopkins

#18. His two podium candidates looked like two blokes who had just got up from the Christmas buffet.

Bjarne Riis

#19. I'm not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it's really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an end-times theory.

Kirk Cameron

#20. Memory isn't the defective tape recording you've been led to believe. It's the tape player itself, playing back the tracks of music we select - and sometimes those we don't.

James Kimmel Jr.

#21. Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Jacob Riis

#22. The slum is the measure of civilization.

Jacob Riis

#23. ever written. I went to bed with it and read

David Mitchell

#24. If you could jerk off to something else, like a hamburger, could you imagine the delight in being alive?

Jonathan Goldstein

#25. Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

Jacob August Riis

#26. He may have been a trifle wild.

Jacob A. Riis

#27. The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

Jacob A. Riis

#28. A "game" that will give everyone the consoling impression of making contact, together, with the ultimate transcendent referent.

David Foster Wallace

#29. It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho