Rupertsland Quotes & Sayings

So I could see that Harlow was fundamentally untrustworthy. Simultaneously, she seemed like someone with whom I could be my true self. I had no intention of doing so and, with and equal and counterbalancing intensity, a great longing for it. — Karen Joy Fowler

Everything the Power of the World does is in a circle. The Sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The Wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles ... The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. — John Neihardt

I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl. — Ai Yazawa

At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't. — Judy Chu

A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old. — Laozi

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa. — Dorothy Parker

There were several things to chew on, but of course the main one was Bingham's alternatives. If he had known Carol Mardus as well as he said he did there were just four candidates. Even if he had killed her himself, he would name the ones she would have been most likely to pick if she hadn't picked him, so it was highly probable that it was one of those four. I stood at a window, and sat at my desk, and stood some more, going over them. Which one? That's the silliest game of solitaire there is, and we all play it, trying to tag a murderer as one of a bunch from what they said and how they looked and acted, unless you can spot something that really opens a crack. I couldn't. — Rex Stout

Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative. — Twyla Tharp

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity. — Warren G. Harding

We are all old-timers,
each of us holds a locked razor. — Robert Lowell

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. — Thomas Pynchon