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From dreams of bliss shall men awake
one day, but not to weep:
the dreams remain; they only break
the mirror of their sleep. — John Paul Richter

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

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude. — Andy Richter

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good. — Andy Richter

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. — Andy Richter

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them. — Andy Richter

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all. — Gerhard Richter

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. — Charles Francis Richter

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it. — Charles Francis Richter

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. — Andy Richter

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

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. — Burton Richter

I didn't deserve to be president just based on the Richter scale of 'Was I tough enough and did I understand the process?' — Joe Biden

Every story has a beginning and an end. What lies between those two points is the journey. — R.C. Richter

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

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns. — Andy Richter

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.) — Gerhard Richter

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false — Gerhard Richter

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible — Gerhard Richter

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men. — Frank Press

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way. — Gerhard Richter

Look at it this way: if winning wasn't so hard, it wouldn't feel so good. — Mike Richter

Of course, a movie is in constant flux. — W. D. Richter

I'm not that professional. — Andy Richter

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol. — Wolfgang Tillmans

THE BIBLE, IN ALL ITS PARTS, IS INTENDED to communicate to humanity the realities of redemption. Over — Sandra L. Richter

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea. — Gerhard Richter

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. — Gisela Richter

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art. — Gerhard Richter

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint. — Gerhard Richter

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want ... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too. — Andy Richter

Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie — Alexander McCall Smith

The only thing missing was Miles. But he was probably circling somewhere, destroying villages and hoarding gold in his mountain lair. — Francesca Zappia

A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission. — Gerhard Richter

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

I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more than I have in any other project. — Max Richter

...when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something. — Gerhard Richter

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread. — Gerhard Richter

I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale. — Charles Francis Richter

Art is the highest form of hope. — Gerhard Richter

A truly great piano is one that enables you to convey deep emotion — Sviatoslav Richter

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale. — John Lyall

Spring makes everything young again except man. — Charles Francis Richter

My paintings are wiser than I am. — Gerhard Richter

It's a very nice thing to have a baby. — Andy Richter

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

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most. — Gerhard Richter

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. — Charles Francis Richter

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes — Charles Francis Richter

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. — Charles Francis Richter

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art. — Gerhard Richter

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

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act. — Gerhard Richter

Fine minds are seldom fine souls. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

I've always written at night - my working day for years was around 9pm to 2am - though I do keep more regular hours these days. — Max Richter

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve. — George Strait

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything. — Andy Richter

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships? — W. D. Richter

I can't paint as well as Vermeer. — Gerhard Richter

What would Chess be without silly mistakes? — Kurt Richter

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe! — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of reflection. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture. — Gerhard Richter

All photographs are far more important than any painting. — Gerhard Richter

Look at her," said a pert little dinoflagellate with a perfectly smooth protein coat. "Look at her with her nose up in the air, refusing to divide. — Stacey Richter

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression. — Gerhard Richter

She is the founder and owner of Luft Books, an independent publishing company, and the author of Bias Cut, Lonely — Morgan Richter

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

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. — Gerhard Richter

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. — Charles Francis Richter

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter's Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind. — Katharine Weber

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems! — Andy Richter

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood. — Burton Richter

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

I've had kids come to me and say, 'Oh, I loved your movie when I was a kid, and I became a marine biologist.' It's crazy. — Jason James Richter

THE RICHTER SCALE, WHICH has technically been replaced by the "moment magnitude"1 scale, measures the energy released by an earthquake. — Randall Munroe

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity. — Dakota Cassidy

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. — Gerhard Richter

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. — Gerhard Richter

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. — Charles Francis Richter

My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale. — Les Dawson

To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person. — Jason James Richter

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten. — Robert Harris

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things. — Gerhard Richter

Do you do this all the time?' he asked.

'No,' I said. 'Just today.'

He smiled. — Francesca Zappia

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.' — Gerhard Richter

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself. — Gerhard Richter