Ruminetis Quotes & Sayings

I was determined that my free time was going to be mine. — Haruki Murakami

I cannot tell if I was more tired or more grateful. Both at least, I was: tired as I never was before that night; and grateful to Gd as I trust I have been often, though never with more cause. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I thought, Hey, maybe these people shouldn't be making up holidays to drink more. Maybe if they drank less they might be able to title their newspaper articles more specifically. For example, I would title this last article Drunk Driver Hits Drunk Walker Drunkety-Drunk I'm So Drunk. — Mike Birbiglia

I become a chameleon for wherever I am. — Bob Saget

You can like guys in books. How's that? I hear book boyfriends are all the rage. — Addison Moore

Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government. — Nicholson Baker

Aldinger, collected his $100 million, Eisman was on his way to becoming the financial market's first socialist. "When you're a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off," he said. His mind was now fully — Michael Lewis

What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about. — George Pelecanos

He lived.
He made it.
A second chance,
given to one
and not the other.
And this?
This is what he did with it? — Lisa Schroeder

Will it take the rest of my life to process what has happened? I don't know.
If Freddy were here, he would say, 'Yet', as per the rules of a playful accord we have concerning unacquired knowledge, whereby if one of us said they didn't know something, the other had to say 'Yet'. And then the other one
usually me
would provide the missing information, or we'd look it up, or just speculate. — Liz Jensen

I could not have asked for a better friends or a better life, but there's a nasty trick about living. It happens at its own pace and in its own way and you never, never know what's coming next. So you keep running and running to keep up with it and most people get tired. Others don't get tired. They just get overtaken by the road. — Melodie Ramone

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane. — Anthony Bourdain

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli

gazed blankly at nothing in particular. I knew that look. They were the Russells of the group. — Bobby Adair

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy. — Robert Anderson