Ruhnke Letter Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them. — David Copperfield

Obama does look good, but he could look better. The most important thing for politicians is to keep their clothes really simple and make sure their clothing actually fits. — Thom Browne

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct. — Camille Paglia

The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I'm not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female. — Roni Horn

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone. — Dick Gregory

He pressed against Master's greatcoat and rubbed him with his shoulder, which meant that he understood everything and was ready for anything, even to die if need be. Ruslan had not yet had to face death himself, but he had seen men and dogs die. There was nothing more terrible, but if he was with Master, it was another matter: that he could stand. — Georgi Vladimov

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me. — Jane Rule

It is not tedium that one feels. It is not grief. It is the desire to go to sleep clothed in a different personality, to forget, dulled by an increase in salary. — Fernando Pessoa

Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had. — R.J. Rushdoony

My strength is my enthusiasm. — Placido Domingo

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen. — Sue Townsend

Loudness is impotence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Taking the easy way isn't right. You need to do things properly in life to achieve the best results. People who cut corners are only fooling themselves. — Sinead Moriarty

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast. — Margaret Fuller

The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea. — Marc Cameron