Ruffs Quotes & Sayings

Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew? — Brion James

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The new Constitution will promote the "general" welfare, not welfare varying by condition or by place of residence. It will secure our liberties - against whom? There's an ambiguity here; liberty could be secured against foreign enemies and domestic subversives, or against the new government itself. The latter interpretation is soothing to American ears; but in this context, it seems far-fetched. The clause appears in a list of things government is to do, not things it is not to do; a list of powers, not of prohibitions. The new government, it would appear, is not the enemy of liberty but its chief agent and protector. The purpose then, in its most plausible reading, is to create a strong, active, national government, one whose benefits will flow directly to the people who create it. — Garrett Epps

What's the damage, sweetie?"
"Eighty dollars."
Ouch. — Emma Chase

If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure. — Louis MacNeice

I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid. — Lajos Kossuth

I could never be afraid of you. — Tammara Webber

I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy. — John McAfee

I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?" — Sara Bareilles