For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the e...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content....
JOHN CROWE RANSOM Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of thi...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of on...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal se...
RALPH RANSOM I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
RANSOM RIGGS Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.
RANSOM RIGGS As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do....
RANSOM RIGGS All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensi...
RALPH RANSOM Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you rea...
RALPH RANSOM Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but mos...
RALPH RANSOM I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I...
RANSOM RIGGS I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS They're not your everyday community neighborhood organization.
BRUCE RANSOM The real question to come out of the discussion is: what is the public commitment and public investm...
BRUCE RANSOM It seems like there's still some lingering bitterness between the governor and the legislators. He's...
BRUCE RANSOM They've yet to break through and catch fire. It doesn't look good for the Democrats.
BRUCE RANSOM Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and du...
RANSOM RIGGS The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappe...
RANSOM RIGGS Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
RANSOM RIGGS I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go t...
RANSOM RIGGS I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid ...
RANSOM RIGGS I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithfu...
RANSOM RIGGS You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every s...
RANSOM RIGGS I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie.
RANSOM RIGGS Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that ...
RANSOM RIGGS I wanted to thank you," I said.
She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funn...
RANSOM RIGGS Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, wher...
RANSOM RIGGS Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.
RANSOM RIGGS Buy one get none free!
RANSOM RIGGS Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.
RANSOM RIGGS He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.
RANSOM RIGGS What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?
RANSOM RIGGS Wait here.
Hell I am. Why?
Because you’re six-five and have green hair and my grandfathe...
RANSOM RIGGS Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
RANSOM RIGGS Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean y...
RANSOM RIGGS I hope I’ll be able to come home, someday. But there are things I need to do first. I just want yo...
RANSOM RIGGS Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words,"...
RANSOM RIGGS That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than yo...
RANSOM RIGGS Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's h...
RANSOM RIGGS I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my h...
RANSOM RIGGS The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.
RANSOM RIGGS I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happe...
RANSOM RIGGS We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importan...
RANSOM RIGGS Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.
RANSOM RIGGS When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
RANSOM RIGGS I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful an...
RANSOM RIGGS Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
RANSOM RIGGS When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or...
RANSOM RIGGS Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
RANSOM RIGGS I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
RANSOM RIGGS Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing do...
RANSOM RIGGS I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was some...
RANSOM RIGGS She was in the very first group of docents.
ANNIE RANSOM It's (usually) not until they go through the training that they get interested in something specific...
ANNIE RANSOM To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable b...
RANSOM RIGGS Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
RANSOM RIGGS Without the trial, you would not have had the OEMs so openly embrace other platforms.
RANSOM LOVE When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse...
RANSOM ANTOINE We just kind of learned how each other played and got comfortable with each other.
RANSOM ANTOINE We knew we had to win because we wanted to be champions. But part of it is that we just didn't want ...
RANSOM ANTOINE You have to have heart to finish a game.
RANSOM ANTOINE We just weren't making the open looks. We had enough open looks.
RANSOM ANTOINE I had a hand in his face and he was just making it over me.
RANSOM ANTOINE The outside kennels need to be completely remodeled or replaced as the concrete is deteriorating, th...
CURT RANSOM ...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everyth...
RANSOM RIGGS But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-ol...
RANSOM RIGGS I bunted for him. I think I'm the only player who ever pinch-hit for both.
CODY RANSOM It's all about getting the opportunities. That's why I drive to Peoria every day. It's well worth it...
CODY RANSOM Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II,...
RANSOM RIGGS Millard! Who's the prime minister?"

"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?" RANSOM RIGGS That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you ch...
RANSOM RIGGS How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.
RANSOM RIGGS ...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
RANSOM RIGGS From a business perspective, the best thing that we can do is create software that companies can dep...
RANSOM LOVE You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist
RANSOM RIGGS anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
RANSOM RIGGS In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure...
RANSOM RIGGS I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who la...
RANSOM RIGGS But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse ...
RANSOM RIGGS Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.
RANSOM RIGGS I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin...
RANSOM RIGGS Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like...
RANSOM RIGGS I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Somethi...
RANSOM RIGGS I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch
RANSOM RIGGS I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS Given your limited space and resources, we were quite impressed with your organization.
CURT RANSOM He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.
RANSOM RIGGS For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburb...
RANSOM RIGGS We haven't found ourselves yet. We don't have a lot of leadership yet. Mentally, we aren't there. It...
DAN RANSOM Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and ...
RANSOM RIGGS You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.
RANSOM RIGGS What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would...
RANSOM RIGGS A lot of guys have success off him early in the count. If he gets two strikes on you, he picks at th...
CODY RANSOM He's an artist who transcends generations. From his hits of the 1970s to the Lion King, Elton John a...
GREG RANSOM It all comes down to who wins and who loses. There has been concern on the part of many people that ...
GREG RANSOM That's why those programs were chosen. Some others were close, but these were dominant.
GREG RANSOM They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood. What made them amazing...
RANSOM RIGGS I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
RANSOM RIGGS We really need sponsors to fund the program.
JANIE RANSOM That's a lot to ask from any one source.
JANIE RANSOM We're sinking. April 21, the office will be empty.
JANIE RANSOM It was a good game. I thought we played good offensively. On our defense, we were a little lax. We l...
JAY RANSOM At halftime they were up 10, and then in the second half they just outplayed us and out-muscled us. ...
JAY RANSOM They controlled the boards on us. They would get two or three shots and we were only getting one sho...
JAY RANSOM In the first half we played very well, we moved the ball and played as a team. In the second half we...
JAY RANSOM Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to peop...
RANSOM RIGGS She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pi...
RANSOM RIGGS Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.
RANSOM RIGGS ..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.
RANSOM RIGGS Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just sta...
RANSOM RIGGS I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just ...
RANSOM RIGGS You're right, Dad. Dr. Golan did help me. But that doesn't mean he has to control every aspect of my...
RANSOM RIGGS There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.
RUSSELL CROWE I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
RUSSELL CROWE I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If ...
RUSSELL CROWE I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able t...
RUSSELL CROWE For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience ...
RUSSELL CROWE While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ende...
RUSSELL CROWE I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in ...
RUSSELL CROWE South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of ...
RUSSELL CROWE I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.
RUSSELL CROWE I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a ...
RUSSELL CROWE It is important to dress for success.
RUSSELL CROWE If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound...
RUSSELL CROWE There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
RUSSELL CROWE My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says t...
RUSSELL CROWE I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there...
RUSSELL CROWE War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentall...
RUSSELL CROWE God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
RUSSELL CROWE The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed d...
RUSSELL CROWE I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a p...
RUSSELL CROWE I have respect for beer.
RUSSELL CROWE I've followed Leeds since I was a little kid. I used to come home from sport in the afternoon, m...
RUSSELL CROWE I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like&...
RUSSELL CROWE If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.
RUSSELL CROWE People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
CAMERON CROWE Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's...
CAMERON CROWE I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
CAMERON CROWE I love actors.
CAMERON CROWE I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.
CAMERON CROWE I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories...
CAMERON CROWE I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is th...
CAMERON CROWE I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the m...
CAMERON CROWE I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend o...
CAMERON CROWE I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well...
CAMERON CROWE People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
CAMERON CROWE I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that ...
CAMERON CROWE It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel ...
CAMERON CROWE I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a...
CAMERON CROWE I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which...
CAMERON CROWE 'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the ...
CAMERON CROWE Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as pow...
CAMERON CROWE Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree ab...
CAMERON CROWE In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we hav...
CAMERON CROWE Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credi...
CAMERON CROWE Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about wr...
CAMERON CROWE Stars arrive on their own timetable.
CAMERON CROWE I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on ...
CAMERON CROWE Time puts things in proper perspective.
CAMERON CROWE And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about th...
CAMERON CROWE I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan...
RUSSELL CROWE I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a pla...
RUSSELL CROWE At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Ach...
RUSSELL CROWE People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.
RUSSELL CROWE I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's j...
RUSSELL CROWE There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the suns...
RUSSELL CROWE When you see it in performance, then you can see the intrigue and the scenes of danger and conspirac...
BRIAN CROWE Like most people, I read 'Julius Caesar' in middle school and I thought it was the most boring and a...
BRIAN CROWE I liked the idea of beginning our movie with death, the place most movies end,
CAMERON CROWE And I'm always surprised at who's there when you fail, ... It's usually not the people you expect to...
CAMERON CROWE Life sends you angels sometimes when you're in need and, in my theory, it's usually never the people...
CAMERON CROWE The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kent...
CAMERON CROWE The entire story of 'Elizabethtown' arrived quickly, ... a tale of love and loss and the discovery o...
CAMERON CROWE I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of ...
CAMERON CROWE I sort of wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see so often in...
CAMERON CROWE The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. Tha...
CAMERON CROWE The personal stuff for me is the best, ... And this one felt a little raw emotionally. I wanted to c...
CAMERON CROWE The inspiration for this program was a bit of outrage, that students were graduating in the State of...
BRIAN CROWE It was just the actors, performing some in costumes, some in jeans, on a stage for 600 students. And...
BRIAN CROWE Romeo and Juliet. It wouldn't go above 25 miles an hour.
BRIAN CROWE I think it's well spent money on their case, and I have a law firm with some very, very talented law...
BRIAN CROWE It only takes three people to incite a mob, and that's exactly what happens in this play.
BRIAN CROWE It's so easy for us to get excited and just be swayed because somebody says the right words at the r...
BRIAN CROWE I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the id...
CATHERINE CROWE A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest auth...
CATHERINE CROWE What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest auth...
CATHERINE CROWE Revolutions never occur in mathematics.
MICHAEL CROWE Claire literally saves his life. And to me there's no better story to tell than how someone can proc...
CAMERON CROWE It blew my mind, ... There were two girls who acted out the poster of the movie. They had a little r...
CAMERON CROWE Mostly it was about the success of the shoe: Does the shoe come back? I had to look at it without th...
CAMERON CROWE The question is where do we go from here? The answer is -- life.
CAMERON CROWE I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church, ... How does that become a transcendent thing?...
CAMERON CROWE