William Pett Ridge quotes

“He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.”
-- William Pett Ridge

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“When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.”
-- William Pett Ridge

Source : William Pett Ridge (1912). “Love at Paddington”

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“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.”

“Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.”

“Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”

“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”

“The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.”

“Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

“My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.”

“One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."”

“Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.”