All Quotes

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
‐‐ Mel Brooks

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
‐‐ John Fund

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
‐‐ Plato

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
‐‐ Aristotle

Rhetoric that vilifies American Muslims is counter to our efforts. It's a setback to our Homeland Security efforts.
‐‐ Jeh Johnson

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.
‐‐ Reince Priebus

Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.
‐‐ Donald McCaig

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse

Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.
‐‐ James Fenton

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
‐‐ J. Cole

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.
‐‐ Jesse Stone

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
‐‐ Jean Philippe Rameau

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
‐‐ Elvis Presley

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
‐‐ Cecil Taylor

Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative.
‐‐ Neneh Cherry

Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or 100 years. If you look for a biological thread throughout science fiction, you can find it, but it's a very small percentage of the total. That's been changing in the last few years.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

Ribosomes contain RNA, messenger RNA provides the information, transfer RNAs brings the amino acids; so the protein-making machinery is an RNA machinery, completely.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that he's been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day.
‐‐ John Cena

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
‐‐ David F. Houston

Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.
‐‐ Maggie Lawson

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.
‐‐ Paul Hogan

Rich Aurelia was my favorite growing up.
‐‐ Jared Goff

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
‐‐ Iqbal Quadir

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Rich folks always talk hard times.
‐‐ Lillian Smith

Rich Gang is a rich look.
‐‐ Birdman

Rich is not better.
‐‐ Nell Carter

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
‐‐ River Phoenix

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.
‐‐ Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.
‐‐ Nell Carter

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
‐‐ Margot Asquith

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
‐‐ Herbert Kaufman

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
‐‐ Amy Grant

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.
‐‐ Billy Baldwin

Rich people are afraid to die.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.
‐‐ Riki Lindhome

Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
‐‐ Adam Carolla

Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone