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Quotes About Richard

My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.
~ Richard Watson Gilder
I have dark forebodings, I said. Always. Know them for what they are, he said. What are they, Richard? The shadowy side of your father, who never sees good in anything. The side you must learn to contain.
~ Ann Rinaldi
Obviously the household of Richard the Fair was unused to hearing the magician laugh. Even Richard himself stopped pawing his willing partner to stare at Simon of Navarre. Something amuses you, my Grendel? he demanded. You have been gracious enough to gift me with a clever wife, Simon said. A clever woman is a curse, Richard said flatly, eyeing Alys with profound distrust. Change your mind, my friend. Choose the pretty one. My lord, said Simon, I did.
~ Anne Stuart
May I offer you some advice? I'd rather you offered me a fast horse and a head start, Richard said with a tight smile. But I'll take the advice, too.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet him.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Hell and furies! Eleanor had begun to pace, her skirts swirling about her ankles. What was he thinking? When does he ever think? Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wine cup from Raoul. If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Rumors are the easiest of all crops to tend, Richard. You need only sow a few seeds about and in no time at all, you'll reap a harvest of hatred.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance—gallant, glorious, and quite mad.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
The playwright Richard Sheridan was scathing in his denunciation of the Company, whose operations 'combined the meanness of a pedlar with the profligacy of a pirate…
~ Shashi Tharoor
My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.
~ Richard Artschwager
The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.
~ Richard Ford
It's quite a thrill to see it coming to life on stage.
~ Richard M. Sherman
Richard Diamond was also seen on TV (1957–60), but the role as played by David Janssen bore little resemblance to the Powell original. The most notable gimmick of the TV series was the addition of a secretary, Sam, who was seen only as a pair of gorgeous legs (which belonged to Mary Tyler Moore). The radio show was charming, though peppered with moments of genuine silliness. A solid run is available on tape. Powell, though at ease with the microphone, did tend to fluff.
~ John Dunning
Virginia joined John and Richard at the house to model her work with family systems and the three of them collaborated to write the book, Changing with Families.
~ John Grinder
See to your Romish conspirators. You may find them more challenging to catch than anticipated." "And your royal selves?" She smiled, sunlight through the first pale leaves of spring. "We shall see to Richard Baines.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He turned his head to press his face to the cold glass of the portal, a gesture Richard saw a lot among his pilots. His pilots. With their hair-trigger reflexes and enhanced senses that made the simplest navigation through daily life an act of courage and endurance. His pilots. Richard's pilots. Richard's ticket to the stars.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Richard is made in the image of a physicist dead since the previous century.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He's not Richard Feynman-just an artificial persona, a program meant to mimic the original.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I love Richard Thaler's 'Quasi Rational Economics.' A collection of some of his most interesting and inventive essays, the real foundation of behavioral economics.
~ Cass Sunstein
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.
~ Richard Ford
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.
~ Richard Matheson
I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.
~ Richard D. James