#wi

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. ↗

— Jeannette Rankin

#far #go #like #people #take

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. ↗

— Frederic Raphael

#bad #bad ideas #become #courses #else

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ↗

— Burton Rascoe

#out #staring #understand #wife #window

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#august #before #could #course #due

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#better #cases #come #countries #crisis

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. ↗

— John Ray

#get #just #over #right #right track

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#end #first-rate #gershwin #instead #lose

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. ↗

— Man Ray

#existence #i #i do #paint #photograph

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there. ↗

— Monica Seles

#because #care #champions #cold #dark

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#career #day #done #get #hate