Ruth Gordon Quotes

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Ruth Gordon

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• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Mine

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Commitment

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Work
  • Night
  • Day

• To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Why

• The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Forever

• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Wish
  • Big
  • Heroes

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Team
  • Me

• I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Question

• Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Team
  • Listening
  • Changes

• It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Journey
  • End

• Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?

  

  Anne Frank

• About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Long

• The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Political
  • Air

• I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Distance

• Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined...or one great figure...or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • World
  • Great
  • Fate

• Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Peace
  • Sign

• The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still always amazed by the style of French girls, and the only reason is that they dress according to themselves and not according to fashion. They know what suits them.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion

• The fact that the academy is seen as being so important to the cultural conversation is a big compliment.

  

  Dawn Hudson
  • Conversation
  • Compliment
  • Academy

• I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • World
  • Sorrow
  • Treated