Robert Ripley Quotes

#1. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

Don DeLillo

#2. We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Radha Mitchell

#3. My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

Robert Ripley

#4. Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?

Robert Ripley

#5. Death is only frightening from the near side.

Jim Butcher

#6. I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

Vanessa Minnillo

#7. Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there,

Robert Ripley

#8. The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium ... The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

Deane Juhan

#9. To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from - what kind of family brought us into this world,' Josie said softly. 'We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.

Sharon Shinn

#10. He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

Robert Ripley

#11. I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

Robert Ripley

#12. Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

Robert Ripley

#13. My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.

Robert Ripley