Ruby Wax Quotes

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

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• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
  • Measure
  • Selling

• Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Happy
  • Question

• Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Story
  • Own
  • Ending

• I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn't very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

  

  Maria Edgeworth

• I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to write stories about young women, and society doesn't place much of a premium on young women's stories. And I think that's why I gravitate towards it. I really honor that, and I treasure that time, and they should be given that respect.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Time
  • Women
  • Why

• When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Friends

• 'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Business
  • Party

• I think Twitter is an incredible platform. I want to see it succeed.

  

  DeRay Mckesson

• I eat ice cream all the time.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Time

• When I was 16, everyone else got a car; I got a motorcycle.

  

  Jason Priestley
  • Car
  • Motorcycle

• I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• I don't care what people say about me.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • People

• The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'

  

  Art Malik
  • Listening

• What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does that say about the world we're living in - it's like a world upside down, right?

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • People
  • World

• It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Distance

• Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Life
  • Future
  • Giving

• Going forward seems like retreat.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Going
  • Seems
  • Retreat

• A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Money
  • Critic
  • Quotation

• Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

  

  Francis Atterbury
  • Should
  • Showers
  • Misplaced

• Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Faith
  • Works

• I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

  

  Ruby Wax
  • Misplaced