Top 100 Rita Rita Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
Rita Ora
#3. Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
#4. Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.
Rita Moreno
#5. I love nature, so I'd love to go out and just look at things and not care what I look like.
Rita Ora
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
Rita Ora
#10. Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.
Rita Ora
#11. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Rita Mae Brown
#12. You might not be able to do the impossible, but do the unimaginable.
Rita M. Hancock
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
Rita Mae Brown
#18. This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.
Rita Moreno
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
Rita Mae Brown
#27. I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.
Rita Ora
#28. When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Rita Mae Brown
#29. A lot of things depend on your attitude. If it is good that you seek, it is good that you will find.
Rita Zahara
#30. 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
#31. You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.
Rita Ora
#32. I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.
Rita Ora
#33. I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on.
Rita Ora
#34. I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.
Rita Ora
#36. 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
#37. Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.
Rita Wilson
#38. He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
Rita Mae Brown
#39. If your husband has difficulty getting to sleep, the words 'we need to talk about our relationship' may help.
Rita Rudner
#40. All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
Rita Dove
#42. When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
Rita Hayworth
#43. You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Rita Dove
#44. I always remember smelling Chanel No. 5 at home - my mum used to literally pour it, and she rocked it.
Rita Ora
#45. I have been doing leg lifts faithfully for about fifteen years, and the only thing that has gotten thinner is the carpet where I have been doing the leg lifts.
Rita Rudner
#49. Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.
Rita Rudner
#50. I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
Rita Ora
#51. Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
Rita Rudner
#52. Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.
Rita Ora
#53. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.
Rita Ora
#54. I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.
Rita Dove
#56. Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.
Rita Stradling
#57. Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
Rita Mae Brown
#58. A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.
Rita Ora
#59. You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
Rita Moreno
#60. I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.
Rita Rudner
#61. Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
Rita Mae Brown
#62. 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
#63. I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.
Rita Rudner
#65. I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#66. Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
Rita Dove
#67. I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
Rita Ora
#68. I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
Rita Dove
#69. I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.
Rita Rudner
#70. My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
Rita Wilson
#71. Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness ... so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.
Rita Zahara
#72. Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
Rita Mae Brown
#73. Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."
Rita Rudner
#74. Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying
Rita Rudner
#75. I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
Rita Mae Brown
#76. Good weather all the week, but come the weekend the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot they complain, too cold they complain, and when it's just right, they're watching TV.
Rita Rudner
#77. I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.
Rita Ora
#79. People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five ... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.
Rita Moreno
#80. Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
Rita Ora
#81. All men look nerdy in black socks and sandals.
Rita Rudner
#82. Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.
Rita Rudner
#83. I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.
Rita Ora
#85. I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
Rita Mae Brown
#86. Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.
Rita Gelman
#87. We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
Rita Mae Brown
#88. I move throughout the world...guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.
Rita Golden Gelman
#89. I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
Rita Coolidge
#90. I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.
Rita Ora
#91. I have a hold limit that I've set for myself. I hold until I start to imagine myself killing the person on the other end. Then I hang up and regroup.
Rita Rudner
#92. Full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she
Rita Mae Brown
#93. I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
Rita Dove
#94. She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first arrived at this school ...
J.K. Rowling
#95. Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.
Rita Zahara
#97. Don't find a reason to smile. Find a way.
Rita Zahara
#98. You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.
Rita Mae Brown
#99. Kerastase and Bed Head have really good products.
Rita Ora
#100. I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.
Rita Ora
