Ruffly Speaking Quotes & Sayings

Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly. — Kristen Schaal

Praised be I, writing, dead already and
dead again — Jack Kerouac

(Democracy: a brilliant invention, that Penbury wished he had thought of, whereby citizens could voice their political will on pieces of paper, which actually gave them little or no choice, that were then deposited in a sealed box which, when opened elsewhere, were emptied onto the nearest fire and ignored while the politicians brokered real power between themselves. Genius.) — Paul Dale

Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner. — Ada Yonath

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start. — Anthony Bourdain

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. — Eric Hoffer

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you. — Jon Stewart

The Selfish Gene - he set off decades of debate by declaring: We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. — James Gleick

There were two main sources of technical knowledge and innovation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the hobbyist and the English rector, both of whom were generally in barbell situations. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

But man did not so fall away94 as to become absolutely nothing; but being turned towards himself, his being became more contracted than it was when he clave to Him who supremely is. — Augustine Of Hippo

We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches. — Charles Kennedy