#richard

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#did #first #fond #i #kind

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#did #founders #george #i #iii

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#art #avenue #completely #feel #fifth

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#example #himself #nixon #obama #predecessor

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well. ↗

— Julie Harris

#chamberlain #clothes #his #lovely #richard

Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#crystal #crystal-skulls #quartz-crystal #quartz-skull #stephen-richards

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. ↗

— Karl Rove

#establishment #nixon #nor #party #reagan

The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#flynn #i #jagger #like #look

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#band #clothes #friend #hanging #i