Top 100 Rita Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and our passing through Briceland again on our way back to New York, but such suffusions of swimming colors are not to be disdained by the artist in recollection.
Vladimir Nabokov
#4. Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
Ben Bernanke
#5. I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."
Rita Rudner
#6. Rachel Hauck is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author. She is a RITA and Christy Award finalist. The Wedding Dress was named Inspirational Novel of the Year by Romantic Times. Rachel lives in central Florida with her husband and two pets and writes from her ivory
Rachel Hauck
#7. RITA finalist Colleen Coble is the author of several bestselling romantic suspense series, including the Mercy Falls series, the Lonestar
Colleen Coble
#8. But it's different for a girl, and Astor is at the age- It's not too dry, is it?" She said, frowning at my plate.
"It's perfect," I said.
"It is dry; I'm sorry. So I thought maybe if you would talk to her," Rita finished. I truly hoped she meant talk to Astor and not the pork chop.
Jeff Lindsay
#9. Looking at Rita, I have long found social injustice preferable to the struggle against it.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
#10. I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s ... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.
Grace Jones
#11. It was an accident, said Cora. No such thing, said Rita. Everything is meant. I
Margaret Atwood
#12. It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.
Yasmine Bleeth
#13. Rita didn't mind. I knew she wouldn't. Hawk fascinated her. Among other things he was male, which gave him a running start
Robert B. Parker
#14. Listen to me. It - it doesn't make very nice reading - " "Yeah, you could say that - " " - but don't forget, Harry, this is Rita Skeeter writing.
J.K. Rowling
#15. I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.
Merry Clayton
#16. I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.
Becky G
#17. The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing.
Mark Foley
#18. I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.
Greg Roberts
#19. Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.
Barbara Oakley
#20. I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers.
Sarah MacLean
#21. I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.
Robert Osborne
#22. Rita Hayworth in Gilda ... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.
Donna Mills
#23. I was in the valley of the shadow of death, no two fucking ways about it, but I had Rita at my side.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#24. I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
Michael Caine
#25. After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.
John Cornforth
#26. In a perfect world, what then becomes of dreams?
- Rita Marks
Clara Bush
#27. To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.
Michael Caine
#28. I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
Dale Archer
#30. If he's as frustrated as I am, he'll be at Rita's, Ranger said.
Janet Evanovich
#31. There's certain people that do pop well. Beyonce's one of them, Rihanna, Rita Ora, I could go on and on. You've got to recognise what your talent and niche is.
Rebecca Ferguson
#32. I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.
Jennifer Lopez
#33. Rita sighed and smiled happily. "Anyway," she said again, and I had to agree.
Jeff Lindsay
#34. Somehow I slogged through the gray soup of the rest of the day and made it all the way home to Rita's at the end of the day, where the soup gelled into an aspic of sensory deprivation.
Jeff Lindsay
#35. Anyway," Rita said, leaning back away from Cody. "It would save some money. Which we will need for the new pool cage, because they are very pricey." "All right," I said, not completely sure what I was agreeing to do.
Jeff Lindsay
#36. Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
Bobby Jindal
#37. People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.
Omar Sharif
#38. FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.
Willy Russell
#39. They are more inclined to think you're innocent if you sound like Barbara Walters," Rita said.
"You think Barbara would be a good date?"
"Oh, oink," Rita said.
Robert B. Parker
#40. Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.
J.K. Rowling
#41. You said Brian is forcing us to go to Key West, whether we want to or not," I said. "And you said all the houses will be there. Other than that, you might as well be speaking Etruscan." Rita
Jeff Lindsay
#42. I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
Kim Novak
#43. She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.
Gail Levin
#44. As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Bobby Jindal
#45. Come on, Penny. Rita came over and Nate loosened his grasp. We've got to go to the kitchen. She turned to Nate. You know, the room with all the sharp knives.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#46. Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
Paul Gillmor
#47. Its an honor to be a part of such a legendary group of stars representing Max Factor, such as Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe, ... Im so excited to start working on the campaign.
Carmen Electra
#48. It is not about what I want from you, Rita. It is about what I want to offer you. What I want to give you. I want to give you an escape.
Aubrey Morgan
#49. In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.
Paul Gillmor
#50. But in all truth, it didn't matter, not even a little bit. It was just one more of the dozens of dopey contradictions making up the many-sided mess that was humanity, and all things considered, it was much less interesting than thinking about what Rita might have cooked for dinner.
Jeff Lindsay
#51. Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.
Mitch Landrieu
#52. I wanted to go and get Rita again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and calm her fears about men.
Jack Kerouac
#53. I had somehow jointed a completely unexpected and unknown company, presumably of people Rita had carelessly left lying around where they had been easily lost, and she had given me no clue how I had managed to get a seat with that group or even who they were.
Jeff Lindsay
#54. Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora that she wouldn't debase herself like that. Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what could you do, supposing? Go to the Colonies, Rita said. They have the choice. With the Unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all? said Cora. Catch you. They
Margaret Atwood
#55. In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
Bobby Jindal
#56. When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.
Daniella Alonso
#57. I heard the front door open and Rita hustled into the house, home from dropping the children at school. She went through the living room and into the kitchen making all the loud and distinct sounds of someone trying to be quiet.
Jeff Lindsay
#58. I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.
Rita Ora
#59. We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.
Michael Chertoff
#60. One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!
Joe Jonas
#61. It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.
Kenneth Williams
#62. I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next.
Sapphire.
#63. Most of the American films were made in southern California, so if you were in Europe, watching those palm trees swaying in the wind with someone like Rita Hayworth gliding underneath them in a white convertible, you got all kinds of wonderfully wrong ideas about the place.
Charles Simic
#64. This was clearly one of those moments. Mild-mannered, Dexter-Devoted Rita, who never lost her temper and never, never said bad words, was doing both at the same time and directing it all at her innocent-just-this-once husband. But
Jeff Lindsay
#65. Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.
Carly Steel
#66. Now I've done it. Only one line to say I love you. And I do. Be safe. XO Rita
Suzanne Hayes
#67. Well, anyway Rita, I have to run, some, uh, Bechdel tests on your jacket.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#68. I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag. I was wild and full of unharnessed energy, but I was around all these seasoned performers like Rita Cullis. It was as if they were all in slow motion.
Claron McFadden
#69. Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.
Rick Fox
#70. The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
Gary Miller
#71. Eva was assigned to learn her duties from Rita Crane, an older woman of indeterminate age and one of the world's most unsuccessful secret drinkers.
Kathleen Tessaro
#72. Hands-Off Parenting Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary: The baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag. RITA RUDNER
Anonymous
#73. I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.
Adam Schlesinger
#74. Rita has spent her whole life being chased by boys. Because of that, she never had a chance to stop running long enough to figure out who she was and what kind of guy she should let catch her.
Amy Harmon
#75. Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.
Ellen Tauscher
#76. Doing their job, said Cora. Keeping us safe.
Nothing safer than dead, said Rita, angrily.
Margaret Atwood
#77. As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
Dita Von Teese
#78. In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.
Steven Weber
#79. As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.
Rick Renzi
#80. Adele," she mouthed. Mary looked up, she couldn't help it, toward the desk where Adele sat, her back to them, her dirty blond hair draped perfectly over her lovely shoulders. "Rita," another girl from the office, "saw them both," Pauline whispered. "At lunch." She
Alice McDermott
#81. Who the hell knows where they get these farkakte names for their kids. One of Rita's friends named her son Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva Rosenblatt. Can you imagine? Rita always says, 'It's no big deal. They call him 'Bodi', is all.' Please. And the newspapers say I'm abusive to children?
Susan Jane Gilman
#82. I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don't want to know the time when I'll have to come to the studio even earlier.
Grace Kelly
#83. It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.
Kerry Emanuel
#84. I started my career off replacing Rita Moreno in a Broadway show.
Patricia Mauceri
#85. If I lived, she died, and I'd never find someone like her again. If she lived, I would have to die. No matter how many times I ran it through my head, there didn't seem to be another way out. One of us had to die and Rita didn't want to talk it through. She was going to let our skill decide.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#86. I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.
Cary Grant
#87. I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.
Michelle Rodriguez
#90. I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
Rita Ora
#91. Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
#92. Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.
Rita Moreno
#93. I love nature, so I'd love to go out and just look at things and not care what I look like.
Rita Ora
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
Rita Ora
#98. Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.
Rita Ora
#99. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Rita Mae Brown
#100. You might not be able to do the impossible, but do the unimaginable.
Rita M. Hancock
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