Al Ritter Quotes

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

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.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

Acceptance of the bit happens in the haunches, not in the mouth.

I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

I'm a weirdo. I don't leave the house unless I have to.

Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.

I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

I think that's who you should be servicing as an actor is the fans. You don't wanna alienate new people from coming in, but you gotta first and foremost service your fans.

I'm currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it's all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

Me a TV star? I've got to be the luckiest guy in the world.

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

You always want your work to be seen as long as it's good.

The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

Netflix is like sitting at the cool kids’ table. Netflix is amazing. We’re the biggest fans of not only working there, but of the company, in general.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.