#rant

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant. ↗

— Alexandra Ripley

#books #cereal #deodorant #like #perfume

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. ↗

— George Ripley

#attaining #besides #desired #effects #foolish

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#head #how #i #i think #instinctive

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#big #buses #business #buying #development

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#granted #here #i #i feel #i feel like

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#freedom #ignorant #keeping #lies #people

I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing a restaurant in Shanghai because I saw the produce available there, and it's just not good. I won't do a restaurant in Moscow for the same reason. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#available #because #doing #example #for example

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#first #generation #immigrant #mother #russia

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#apparent #being #eldest #every #father

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ↗

— Will Rogers

#different subjects #everybody #ignorant #only #subjects