#up

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room. ↗

— Don Rickles

#doctor #i #i think #just #out

Either they're still naive, or stupid. ↗

— Toba Beta

#naive #reality #stupid #youngster #life

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. ↗

— Terry Riley

#am #because #being #billions #coming

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#distorts #emotion #emotions #gather #impure

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#awfully #clean #clean up #i #i am

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be. ↗

— LeAnn Rimes

#besides #built #everybody #had #i

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#build #come #lead #line #one thing

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#actually #antisocial #being #conversation #feels

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#around #bottle #broadway #come #couple