Ripping Yarns Quotes

#1. Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Raymond E. Feist

#2. From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Jeffrey Deitch

#3. I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

Whitfield Diffie

#4. I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

Julie Delpy

#5. The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

Renee Fleming

#6. Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

Jean Webster

#8. Belittling others is no pastime for those convinced of their own standing. There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they aren't good enough for us.

Alain De Botton