#richard

wop-bop-a-lu-bop... a-lop-bam-boom! ↗

— R.W. Penniman

#existentialism #inspirational #little-richard #inspirational

It's the plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn't be alive today to tell you my story ↗

— Yann Martel Life of Pi

#life #life-of-pi #richard-parker #inspirational

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change. ↗

— Richard Bach

#richard-bach #truth #change

If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood. ↗

— Mark Strong

#baddies #before #bit #fall #ferdinand

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy. ↗

— Hannibal Buress

#chris rock #compare #eddie #eddie murphy #even

I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid. ↗

— Sarah Burton

#campaigns #dresses #drew #early #i

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. ↗

— Archibald Cox

#did #genuine #judgment #more #nixon

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#been #cars #collect #collector #collects

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been