Rip Torn Defending Your Life Quotes

#1. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him.

Susanna Clarke

#3. Get married with the feeling it is going to last. Not like the bride I know who doubled the wedding cake recipe and froze one.

Phyllis Diller

#4. Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).

Smith Wigglesworth

#5. The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar on hair gel so you can get the perfect cowlick?

Zach Braff

#6. We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"
-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life

Albert Brooks

#8. Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.

Seth Godin

#9. . . . when a woman has a husband
And you've got none,
Why should she take advice from you?
Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare
And all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

Meredith Willson

#10. Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#11. I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

Tina Turner

#12. Whatever it is, you can live through it, and it ends.

Barbara Kingsolver