Riveroll Quotes

#1. Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

Charles Van Doren

#2. At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents from the Russian state and put them online, the FSB will try to kill you. Steal American secrets, and the CIA will not.

Nick Cohen

#3. You can intimidate some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.

Richard Pound

#4. Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country ... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.

Boman Irani

#5. Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money ... However you get them in or why, just do it.

L. Ron Hubbard

#6. We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

Abu Abbas

#7. No one has to choose to be with others whose habits and words are disturbing but we can make the choice not to judge them.

W. Lee Nichols

#8. To bear is to conquer our fate.

Thomas Campbell

#9. Everything about a person may not be perfect, but there are somethings in every person that deserve our respect.

Debasish Mridha

#10. For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

Rachael Taylor

#11. Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

Alanis Morissette

#12. The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

#13. An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Quentin Crisp

#14. You love me because you see me every day. You don't love me for who I am, you love me because of what I do or don't do. You don't know who I am.

Jose Saramago