Ring Lardner Quotes

#1. I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Harold Ross

#2. No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

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#3. Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty

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#4. He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

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#5. The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

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#6. An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

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#7. I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

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#8. Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.

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#9. Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

#10. Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

Ring Lardner Jr.

#11. Shut up,' he explained.

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#12. One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

Mark Zuckerberg

#13. How can you write if you can't cry?

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#14. Evolution? they said to themselves, Who needs it?,

Douglas Adams

#15. Viagra, Valtrex, Valium... you fuck enough strangers, you're taking a blue pill with a "V" on it.

Tyler Knight

#16. Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

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#17. It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

Janet McTeer

#18. He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

Ring Lardner Jr.

#19. A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

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#20. The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

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#21. He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

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#22. Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

Ring Lardner Jr.

#23. How do you look when I'm sober?

Ring Lardner Jr.

#24. If only, we could stop taking our job as an OPPORTUNITY and work honestly as a DUTY, this world would be a much better, peaceful and loving place to live in.

M.ralte

#25. There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Grace Metalious

#26. Asking questions doesn't mean you don't know your job, asking questions means you want to improve the quality of your work.

Robert Allen

#27. Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Joseph Addison

#28. When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

Nhat Hanh

#29. Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.

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#30. warriors - be they human, demoness, siren, changeling or any brave creature from the Lore - knew to pray for it as they died. Thus the Valkyrie were born.

Kresley Cole

#31. The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

Wallace D. Wattles

#32. They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

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