Ruedemann Quotes & Sayings

Inspiration doesn't lead to writing. Writing leads to inspiration. — Ellery Akers

The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator. — Frederick Mosteller

Never eat at a place called 'Moms', but if the only other place in town has a sign that says 'Eats', go back to Moms. — W.C. Fields

Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died. — Madonna Ciccone

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

Except now everything is digital even murder. There is a record for everything under the sun from the moon and back whether we like it or not. The image that I have of the future is that it is very bleak. It is darkness visible. The black dog of depression will hang us all in the end. Considering the life we live, the values we teach our children, what we believe in everything is a movement for change and every pause between words is a revolutionary act. The 'struggle' was like a painful mental illness. The liberation in retrospect was either the exit from our slavery ushering us into a novel, brave, bold and brilliant world or a mass hallucination. The political climate in post-apartheid South Africa has gone as far as corrupting liberty. — Abigail George

The women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run. — Voltaire

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. — W. Edwards Deming

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise. — Jill Soloway

The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over to pick it up, I thought that was it, I was going to flood the road! And I'm not even exaggerating. I've never been so desperate in my life. — Jill Mansell

But was the prototype of human existence; it was the original pattern or the archetype on which our life here below had been modeled. — Karen Armstrong

We demand that sex speak the truth [ ... ] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness. — Michel Foucault

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'. — Gore Verbinski

It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again. — Shaun White