Ruleitude Quotes & Sayings

As the philosopher Gilles Deleuze put it, no painter ever stands before a completely blank canvas, no author ever sits before a blank page. In fact, the surface confronting the modern artist is full of inherited images that must first be cleared from the imagination before one can begin to create one's own. — Marie Luise Knott

She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases. — Robin Hobb

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids. — Steve Zahn

There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.
He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me.
There's only one of him. — Rainbow Rowell

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet. — Parker Posey

'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit. — Dorothy Rowe

Congress and the American people have good reason to fear that we are heading toward another permanent garrison of Americans in a Balkan country where our mission is confused, and our exit strategy a complete mystery. — John McCain

Do come now," said he ... , "pray come, you must come, I declare you shall come. — Jane Austen

A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however, eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor. — Bertrand Russell

Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing
nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person
or of a friend
no, even so, I think myself infallible. — Virginia Woolf

The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates. — Robert Kuttner

I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me. — MaryJanice Davidson