Christopher Ricks famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  • There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

  • My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

  • I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.

  • I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

  • John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

  • My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

  • A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

  • Genius is clairvoyant.

  • I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.