Ruthruff Grade Quotes & Sayings

Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part. — Kate Bornstein

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are. — Simon Neil

Working with those versed in the Mystical Arts was sometimes like trying to knit with wet spaghetti: just when you thought you'd gotten somewhere, it all came to pieces in your hands. — Jasper Fforde

There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed. — Daisaku Ikeda

If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can't get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible. — Geeta Iyengar

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. — Lafcadio Hearn

I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops. — Rick Perry

Surly. I eyed him, biting my tongue, wanting to tell him to back the hell up and go talk to — Cambria Hebert

No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets. — Victoria Alexander

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while. — Chamera Sampson

The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works. — Mark Twain

My body is holy temple. — Lailah Gifty Akita