Quotations

"Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen."

— Little Richard, American singer, born 1932

"I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist."

— Little Richard, American singer, born 1932

"Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere."

— Keith Richards, English singer, born December 18, 1943

"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."

— Lionel Richie, American singer, born June 20, 1949

"On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise."

— Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher, born February 27, 1913

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."

— Sally Ride, American astronaut, born May 26, 1951

"I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals."

— Sally Ride, Astronaut, first American woman in space, June 18, 1983

"Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep."

— Jack Ridl, American poet, born 1944

"Some defeats are only installments to victory."

— Jacob Riis, Danish-American photographer, born 1849

"Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

— Jacob Riis, Danish-American photographer, born 1849

"For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem of proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet, born 1875

"Whoever does not, sometime or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent, to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day when the judgement is given, will have been neither alive nor dead. To show the identity of dreadfulness and bliss, these two faces on the same divine head, indeed this one single face, which just presents itself this way or that, according to our distance from it or state of mind in which we perceive it —: this is the true significance and purpose of the Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet, born 1875

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet, born 1875

"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet, born 1875