Rudneva Quotes & Sayings

Tsk, Tsk, Sunshine. I believe I have a wanton wench on my hands. Unfortunately for you, I'm in control here, not you. — Lainie Suzanne

I now felt a new, pitiful tenderness toward the poem as one has for a fickle young creature who has been stolen and brutally enjoyed by a black giant but now again is safe in our hall and park, whistling with the stableboys, swimming with the tame seal. The — Vladimir Nabokov

If I didn't know better, I'd swear he was trying to charm her. Of course the transgenically-enchanted Alka Alon, male and female, were beings of surpassing beauty in human eyes, I'd learned. But few humans would have the temerity to even consider such a liaison. Tyndal apparently had a secret temerity mine somewhere I didn't know about. "What — Terry Mancour

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — Peter Carey

The kind of people I know now don't have barbecues, Mama. They stand up alone at nights in small rooms and eat cold weenies. My so-called friends are bums. Many of them are nothing but rats. They spread T.B. and use dirty language. They're wife-beaters and window peepers and night crawlers and dope fiends. They have running sores on the backs of their hands that never heal. They peer up from cracks in the floor with their small red eyes and wait for chances. — Charles Portis

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Illegitimate children can be left money, but they can't inherit the peerage."
"You wouldn't want it," Cameron put in. "More trouble than it's worth. And for God's sake, don't murder Hart or I'm next. — Jennifer Ashley

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things. — Anthea Turner

Be thankful for all that you have. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work. — Elbert Hubbard

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others. — James A. Baldwin

Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do something that raises your self-esteem. Tap into your 'signature strengths' - things you're good at or passionate about. — Karen Salmansohn