Richard Corliss Quotes

Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.

Richard Corliss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1944 - April 23, 2015

Topics

HomeChildrenCuteParentLoss

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

Jimmy Rushing

BluesGoingRushingRecordTypical

Freedom is not negotiable.

Andy Garcia

Freedom

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

Jef I. Richards

TruthTimeAdvertisingStoryCountry

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

Stephen Merchant

WomenBetterYouGoClassBecome

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

Travis Barker

WalkTryingYouKnowLegsHard

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Tom Lantos

PowerFreeGenerationPoliticalFlow

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

Roger McGuinn

GuitarYouNowFlexibilityNotes

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.

Miranda Seymour

LifeSmileFatherBestThinkNice

Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.

Misty Copeland

BasketballClassCaliforniaFirst

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

Loretta Lynch

SocietyViewProtectMeanEveryone

I do my job in Type O Negative.

Josh Silver

JobNegativeType

In many ways, string theory attempts to go beyond Einstein's dream... an all-encompassing description of nature that works at large distances where gravity becomes important as well as small distances where quantum mechanics is important.

Ashoke Sen

NatureSmallDreamGoImportant

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