I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more tha...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christma...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more t...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a ma...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissi...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN the sweet juices of your mouth
are like castles bathed in honey.
i've never had it done so...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a p...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have ...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I have emotions

that are like newspapers that

read themselves.

I go for d...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Hello, sir. Yes...Uh-huh...Yes...You say that you want to bury your aunt with a Christmas tree in he...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows lik...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be w...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have ...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Money is sad shit
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing ove...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN A Boat

O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
t...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON 'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL ...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL ...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and...
RICHARD SIMMONS My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court...
RICHARD SIMMONS Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,...
RICHARD DAWKINS People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to ...
RICHARD BRANSON I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around i...
RICHARD WAGNER I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
RICHARD SHELBY Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing...
RICHARD BRANSON If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there...
RICHARD BRANSON For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into wo...
RICHARD ENGEL I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It's on a rocky hill ov...
RICHARD BRANSON Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort ...
RICHARD LOUV Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial ...
RICHARD CORLISS The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discour...
RICHARD DAWKINS My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.'...
RICHARD HAMMOND I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
LITTLE RICHARD The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is ...
RICHARD SAUNDERS For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature canno...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of...
RICHARD ARMITAGE My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever si...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about lon...
RICHARD SCHIFF Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.
RICHARD NEY Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of...
RICHARD POWERS Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
RICHARD FRANCK It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc...
RICHARD DAWKINS Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness a...
RICHARD HALLOWAY Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel b...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
RICHARD RUSSO Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the bol...
RICHARD JEFFERIES Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a ...
RICHARD PRESTON Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would ...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...
RICHARD SELZER This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon t...
RICHARD KINDER And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is m...
RICHARD HOVEY The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
RICHARD OWEN Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of som...
RICHARD POWERS I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min...
RICHARD CORLISS A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ...
RICHARD CORLISS Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a conti...
RICHARD MITCHELL Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone s...
RICHARD MITCHELL Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as ...
RICHARD MITCHELL Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
RICHARD MCKENNA Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in...
RICHARD PAYMENT The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibil...
RICHARD ROHR No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 ...
RICHARD CORLISS As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the diff...
RICHARD WHATELY Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN