Ritzen Quotes

#1. Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.

Mark Leiren-Young

#2. Like so many other pathological personalities in positions of power a million years ago, he might do almost anything on impulse, feeling nothing much. The logical explanations for his actions, invented at leisure, always came afterwards.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. People die from hitting the wall, they hit it again and again...
...
one moment it ends all and they die!

Deyth Banger

#4. The child is right," she announced firmly.
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.

Mary Norton

#5. The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

Michael Mandelbaum

#6. But truth is like the coyote. No matter how much society is bent on its destruction, it somehow always manages to survive, usually sneaking around the edges of civilization to avoid detection.

Kirk Mustard

#7. The right attitude is everything!

Lorii Myers

#8. You think I'm psycho, you think I'm gone
Tell the psychiatrist something is wrong
Over the bend, entirely bonkers
You like me best when I'm off my rocker
Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed
So what if I'm crazy? The best people are.

Melanie Martinez

#9. I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

Ben Okri

#10. In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

Russ Feingold

#11. Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart

Maureen Johnson

#12. The spirits of those who die before their appointed time always carried such anguish with them, that it passed on to the people in their path.

Easterine Kire

#13. Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started.

Karen Traviss

#14. Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

Jan Morris

#15. It felt like a textbook breakdown to me, but Diana called it a spiritual awakening. I think we were both right. In fact, I'm starting to question if you can have one without the other.

Brene Brown

#16. Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Walter Murch