Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Schiff

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

Richard Rorty

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

Richard Russo

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

Richard Russo

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

Richard Russo

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Richard Russo

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

Richard Russo

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Richard Russo

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

Richard Russo

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

Richard Russo

Ultimately, your #‎ theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

Richard Russo

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

Richard Russo

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Francis Burton

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

Richard Flanagan

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

Richard Ford

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

Richard Ford

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

Richard Gere

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

Richard Gere

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

Richard Gere

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

Richard Gere

I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.

Richard Gere

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

Richard Gere

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

Richard Gere

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

Richard Gere

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

Rich Franklin

You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter.

Ricardo Semler

Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.

Ricardo Semler

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

Rich Mullins

I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better...

Rich Mullins

I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?

Rich Mullins

A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.