Thelma Ritter Quotes

#1. Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it has also felt obliged to trivialize it, to make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasures usually are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. He yearned for something more.
It could have been his. It had been his.
Until he walked away.

Donna Grant

#3. Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

Thelma Ritter

#4. You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

Alan Arkin

#5. Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.

Miya Yamanouchi

#6. How ex are we talking?"
"The kind where you have to take everything that he ever gave you and bury it in the backyard so there will be nothing to remind you of how much you loved him.

Amy A. Bartol

#7. Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.

Pope Francis

#8. Germany must have her place in the sun.

Wilhelm II

#9. But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. Today, people are having to spend so much of their money, to acquire a house and to get an education that they don't have enough to spend on goods and services, except by running into yet more debt on their credit cards and other borrowings.

Michael Hudson

#11. The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

Harold B. Lee

#12. If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

Thelma Ritter

#13. Since money is energy, our financial affairs tend to reflect how our life energy is moving. When your creative energy is flowing freely, often your finances are as well. If your energy is blocked, your money does too.

Shakti Gawain

#14. As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

Thelma Ritter

#15. Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Thelma Ritter

#16. When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

Thelma Ritter

#17. During my career several people have tried to push me out the door ... Nobody has succeeded yet.

Ferdinand Piech