Ruth > Ruth's Quotes

“The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.”
― Roger Ebert

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
― Plato

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.”
― Mark Doty, Dog Years