Rudner Yates Quotes & Sayings

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time. — Jamie L. Harding

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. — Albert Einstein

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze. — Jill Soloway

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti — Virgil

Africa is in fact a more Christian continent than Europe. There are now, for example, more Anglicans in Nigeria than in England. — Niall Ferguson

I know, somewhere in me, that it's not her that's being stupid. I understand, on one level, that she doesn't know, that everything's up in the air. But that's no use to me. You know the worst thing about being rejected? The lack of control. If you could only control the when and how of being dumped by somebody, then it wouldn't seem as bad. But then, of course, it wouldn't be rejection, would it? It would be by mutual consent. It would be musical differences. I would be leaving to pursue a solo career. I know how unbelievably and pathetically childish it is to push and push like this for some degree of probability, but it's the only thing I can do to grab any sort of control back from her. — Nick Hornby

Before David McCullough went on to fame, fortune, and literary awards with books like John Adams and Mornings on Horseback, he wrote a tragic and riveting account of the great 1889 flood in Pennsylvania, The Johnstown Flood. Kathleen Cambor describes the same disaster in a novel, In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden. — Nancy Pearl

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door. — Abel Ferrara

A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine. — Jay Leno

It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. — Zadie Smith

Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve the way of working. — Ben Linders

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent. — Vikram Seth