Rita O'grady Quotes

#1. I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Rita Mae Brown

#2. You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

Rita Ora

#3. When you love someone very much, you'd have to go through every tear, every heartache, every pain. Cause in the end, it's not how much you suffered but how you loved.

Rita Zahara

#4. A lot of things depend on your attitude. If it is good that you seek, it is good that you will find.

Rita Zahara

#5. When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

Rita Mae Brown

#6. I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

Rita Ora

#7. Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

Rita Mae Brown

#8. I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Rita Coolidge

#9. I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Rita Dove

#10. Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Rita Mae Brown

#11. I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap.

Jennifer Lopez

#12. At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#13. Oh, my God. I've just told you how old I am. Nobody knows how old I am. I'm going to have to kill you now.

Rita Rudner

#14. Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

Rita Wilson

#15. This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Rita Moreno

#16. I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

Rita Ora

#17. All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Rita Mae Brown

#18. Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

Rita Mae Brown

#19. If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.

Rita Dove

#20. Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.

Rita Ora

#21. You might not be able to do the impossible, but do the unimaginable.

Rita M. Hancock

#22. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Rita Mae Brown

#23. Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

Rita Ora

#24. I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

Rita Ora

#25. By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Rita Dove

#26. I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

Rita Mae Brown

#27. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.

Rita Zoey Chin

#28. I love nature, so I'd love to go out and just look at things and not care what I look like.

Rita Ora

#29. Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Rita Moreno

#30. Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown