Rudine Quotes & Sayings

Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. — Joseph Jacobs

Surprised to see a bird right upon the window, that too at a definite time of the morning hour regularly. To make sure I am still here to welcome another morning or to wish me a good morning, but she doesn't fail to bring a smile upon this quivering lips. Nevertheless, little things bring the greatest joys for whom every moment is life. — Preeth Nambiar

He who hesitates is usually fucked! — Stephen King

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself. — Krista Tippett

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric. — Michio Kaku

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it. — Joan Didion

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. — Libba Bray

Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine. — DJ Spooky

Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books. — Rudine Sims Bishop

Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived. — D.X. Logan

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. — Gyorgy Kepes

You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me. — RuPaul

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich ... it's got a wide spectrum. — Chantal Kreviazuk

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. — Joni Mitchell

I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds. — Iggy Pop