I. A. Richards Quotes

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

The public library is the great equaliser.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

Some things get better with age. Like me.