Quotations

"After dinner, Marcel Duchamp would take the bus to play at a chess circle and return late with Lydie, his first wife lying awake waiting for him. Even so, he did not go up to bed immediately, but set up the chess pieces to study the position of a game he had been playing. First thing in the morning when he arose, he went to the chessboard to make a move he had thought during the night. But the piece could not be moved. During the night Lydie has arisen and glued down all the pieces. A few days later, Duchamp and Lydie divorced, and he returned to the states."

— Man Ray, American-French photographer, born 1890

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

— Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, born 1911

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

— Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, born 1911

"All this time, the personality of Lincoln was gradually sinking deeper and deeper into my soul. I was modeling the man in clay, but he was being engraven still more deeply upon my heart."

— Vinnie Ream, American sculptor, born 1847

"A genuine bikini is not a bikini unless it can be pulled through a wedding ring."

— Louis Reard, French fashion designer, born 1897

"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman."

— Helen Reddy, Australian singer, born 1941

"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story."

— Robert Redford, American actor, born 1936

"One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it."

— Odilon Redon, French painter, born 1840

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."

— Betty Reese, American pilot

"Dana came into the room, she knelt down next to me and we made eye contact. I mouthed my first lucid words to her. “Maybe we should let me go.”
She said, “I’m only going to say this once. I will support whatever you want to do because this is your life. And your decision. But I want you to know that I'll be with you for the long haul, no matter what.”
Then she added the words that saved my life: 'you're still you. And I love you."

— Christopher Reeve, American actor, born 1952

"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

— Christopher Reeve, American actor, born 1952

"Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life."

— Dana Reeve, American actress, born 1961

"I took care of him in many ways, but he took care of me in so many ways. I demanded almost as much of our relationship after his disability as before-basically telling him: 'You need to be my husband. I am there to support you; you need to support me.' I think it kept our relationship alive. Because if I had given up and said, 'Oh, you're sick. I'm not going to ever ask anything of you,' it would've belittled him. He was a willing and loving participant in our relationship, and he was an incredible husband because of that."

— Dana Reeve, American actress, born 1961

"Knock the 't' off the 'can't'."

— George Reeves, American actor, born January 5, 1914