Ruber Quotes & Sayings

Well, let me try again,' he said. 'If it be true, and no doubt it is, that the proper study of mankind is man, it is also true that man is best studied in the books that he has written about himself; and all books, whatever their subject matter, are in essence autobiographical... Wherefore, it is clear - or is it? - that writers of books are what I have called them, the most fascinating people in the world. — Peter Ruber

I personally have seen flamingos throughout the state of Utah perched proudly on lawns and in the gravel gardens of trailer courts. These flamingos, of course, are not Phoenicopterus ruber, but pink, plastic flamingos that can easily be purchased at any hardware store.
It is curious that we need to create an environment foreign from our own. In 1985, over 450,000 plastic flamingos were purchased in the United States. And the number is rising.
Pink flamingos teetering on suburban lawns - our unnatural link to the natural world. — Terry Tempest Williams

Beware belief in anything you read on the Internet. — Benjamin Franklin

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. — Russell Banks

But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. — Victor Hugo

We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on. — John Hagee

Life's a quest - A long search for something we can't name; something we want and usually can't get. We don't know precisely what it is - all we know is that we don't get it. What a fellow needs is something in which he can lose himself when everything else is a mess. — Peter Ruber

Id her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king's and queen's heads. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go! — Jeannette Rankin

He was after a sensational story and this, of course, could not be constructed out of mere truth; not out of officially released truth, anyway. It was essential that the news-reading public should feel, first, that the community was in danger and secondly that people - well-off people, "official" people - who ought to have known better, were to blame for it. — Richard Adams

We must have Sunni-Arabs involved in this coalition [against ISIS]. We must commit leadership, strength, support and resolve. — Carly Fiorina

Know will of God and keep to His ways. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books - the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of 'em. I've had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I've ever done in life. — Peter Ruber

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. — Kenneth Tynan

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?' — Sam Kinison

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. — Jean-Paul Sartre

My second meeting with Vincent Starrett began on a cool Sunday afternoon in May of 1962. After a short interlude, he returned from the kitchen precariously balancing a large cup of tea on a very small saucer. It was the largest tea cup I had ever seen, large enough to startle, I am inclined to suspect, even the Mad Hatter in 'Alice in Wonderland. — Peter Ruber

You're going to be happy. I promise." He kissed her again, and then he said the words she didn't want to hear. "It's time. — Elizabeth Finn

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person. — Nhat Hanh

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. — Clifford Geertz