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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 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 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

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluste...
RANSOM K. FERM 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 And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of on...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM

My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to w...
ANTOINE PREDOCK

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under it...
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One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic imp...
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I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that ...
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The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rai...
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I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It incl...
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I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
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Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving toge...
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Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.
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The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not ...
ANTOINE PREDOCK We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Vices are often habits rather than passions
ANTOINE RIVAROL

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Vices are often habits rather than passions.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child ...
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
ANTOINE ARNAULD

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds
ANTOINE RIVAROL

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but ...
ANTOINE PREDOCK

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it bec...
ANTOINE PREDOCK

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