Rutabagas Cousin Quotes & Sayings

My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I have parted from my dear. — Robert Creeley

If you would like to know how easy it is to overlook evil, Petra could tell you: it is the easiest thing in the world. — Marie Rutkoski

I never say "get like me". I would hate for my competition to be on my level. In fact, stay exactly with what your doing. — Behdad Sami

I mean," Rosalie went on in a tone of renewed encouragement, "here's Vormoncrief, for instance." "Here is not Vormoncrief," Ekaterin said firmly, grasping for the one certain anchor in this whirlwind of confusion. "Absolutely not. You've never met the man, Rosalie, but take it from me, he's a twittering idiot. Aunt Vorthys, am I right or not?" The Professora smiled fondly at her. "I would not put it so bluntly, dear, but really, Rosalie, shall we say, I think Ekaterin can do better. There's plenty of time yet." "Do you think so?" Rosalie took in this assurance — Lois McMaster Bujold

No, Digory. Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures. Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny. — C.S. Lewis

A man doesn't require the approval of others. He's willing to follow his heart wherever it leads him. When a man is following his heart-centered path, it's of little consequence if the entire world is against him. — Steve Pavlina

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now. — Robert Downey Jr.

My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing. — Zoe Kravitz

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. — Flannery O'Connor

For me art is a spontaneous journey on the crest of the Tao's wave, — David Jay Brown

Even in the snarkiest of times, stay true. — Lauren Myracle

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan

Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change. — David Amerland

I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore. — Jamie Dornan

Virtue is health, vice is sickness. — Petrarch