Rubinos Italian Quotes & Sayings

Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don't internalize the habit of giving excuses. — Israelmore Ayivor

When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything. — Cheryl Strayed

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. — Vincent Van Gogh

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression. — Ike Skelton

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them. — Arundhati Roy

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. — Emmeline Pankhurst

The Stones This is the city where men are mended. I lie on a great anvil. The flat blue sky-circle Flew off like the hat of a doll When I fell out of the light. I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. The mother of pestles diminished me. I became a still pebble. The stones of the belly were peaceable, The head-stone quiet, jostled by nothing. — Sylvia Plath

I only watch the last 40 seconds. Watching a whole marathon over time, the beginning, middle and end look very slow. I want to see action! I can't help it. — Apolo Ohno

But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now. — Kate Messner

Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls. — Sue Monk Kidd

And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds. — William Carlos Williams

The Hummer hovered there a second, and then flipped over the second vehicle. Through the air it tipped over and over
something was flung from one of the windows, perhaps a person.
Seatbelts save lives. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet
or they're not. Either way, it's certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then hum anity will be able to see something it can't see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don't figure this out, then I'm afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we're driving into extinction here every day
as many as 200
every day — Daniel Quinn

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town. — H. G. Bissinger

Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us lucky enough to spend our days doing something we love, something we're good at, are rich. If you do not work passionately (even furiously) at being the best in the world at what you do, you fail your talent, your destiny, and your god. — George Lois