Ritchard's Quotes

#1. Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Michael Dirda

#2. I definitely think of myself as a musician first.

Lucia Micarelli

#3. The honour is to be a servant of men, whom God thought worth making, worth allowing to sin, and worth helping out of it at such a cost.

George MacDonald

#4. Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.

King Tuff

#5. Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Alain De Botton

#6. Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

Gail Carriger

#7. Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.

Mary Docter

#8. If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

Mary Astell

#9. My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

Cyril Ritchard

#10. My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

John Cena

#11. In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists at all in the real world; it is all out on the trail somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there.

John L. Parker Jr.

#12. That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

Francine Rivers

#13. You don't need to apologise, my friend,' smiled the Pandit. There is no "your god" or ";my god". All godliness comes from the same source. Just the manifestations are different. But I have a feeling that one day you will find a temple worth walking into just for prayer, not to admire its beauty.

Amish Tripathi

#14. A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators.

H.L. Mencken

#15. I've been half d-dead for ten years, Gris, but then you walked back into my life, and I came alive again. You make me want to live. You make me want to be a better man.

Katy Regnery

#16. If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

Dana Gould