W. D. Richter Quotes

I'm not that professional.

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

The people on Quintuplets were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.

We all love to see excellence as a fan, and I am a fan now watching excellence in the Rangers net.

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?

If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

Fine minds are seldom fine souls.

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.

Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

She knew of a woman who had entered such a bargain at a large automobile manufacturer in 1973 and successfully managed to keep her accounting position for over four decades.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.