I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Related I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand... BABE RUTH You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars. MIRIAM HOPKINS And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty ... BIBLE A place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. MARILYN MONROE Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so... MARILYN MONROE Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for you... MARILYN MONROE For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift... A. A. MILNE Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so... MARILYN MONROE The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I ... RUTHERFORD B. HAYES We are currently two hundred thousand dollars over goal for the Meyer wellness center. PAT TAYLOR I would like to be able to have an idea for a business and get the city to put up the land and sever... WAYNE KING This whole scheme that the governor's coming up with is going to make everybody pay more taxes we're... DAN CURTIS In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, ... MARILYN MONROE Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B... RUDYARD KIPLING You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need t... CHRIS ROCK And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south tw... BIBLE Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and ... PANKAJ MISHRA The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the... CHUCK SCHUMER I don't care if it's one dollar or a thousand dollars - I'm going to go out and get it. BLAC CHYNA Once in New York, you are sure to be a great success. I know lots of people there who would give a h... OSCAR WILDE Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well. PETE ROSE If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won'... E. S. KINNEAR [But as of now,] there is no official project on the books, ... Any time you get into widening a str... COLIN JONES In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refuse... LAKHDAR BRAHIMI We think customers who are spending forty or fifty dollars a month now will move up to the eighty-to... DAN HESSE Fifty thousand would make a huge impact. LISA HOPPER Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars is the annual aggregate income of African Americans. That ec... KENNETH KAUNDA We were doing the Monterey Pop Festival, which I produced with Lou Adler, and the town of Monterey w... JOHN PHILLIPS Thousand years, billion dollars,” May said to the monkey. “You. PAY. JAMES RILEY Thirty thousand dollars is 180,000 rand. And $180,000 is a lot more than that over there. GRANT BAKER And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand... BIBLE I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but... GIANNI AGNELLI I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the... HENRY IV The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insuranc... THEODORE STURGEON I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for i... GORDON PARKS If I've calculated it correctly, the city could probably capture a couple hundred thousand dollars a... GARY PALMER I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spo... JAMES DICKEY You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need t... CHRIS ROCK Not a lot of money has been spent. It's been painted, but it could use some additional work, probabl... MARK MILLAN My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at o... JAMES WELDON JOHNSON I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to underst... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Twenty-five thousand dollars is nothing. KATHAY LOVELL Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what r... VIRGINIA WOOLF A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. MAE WEST A couple of months become a couple thousand dollars. It kills us to have to put these animals to sle... GINA CAHILL We put up 21 thousand dollars, it is a great opportunity and a huge success, MICHAEL SULLIVAN And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of th... ARTHUR ROCK Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another tw... TONY REINKE I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to und... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand do... DAVID WOOD I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundr... ALEX TREBEK Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've... BILLY SUNDAY Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hu... HEYWOOD BROUN Fifty dollars is conservative. The 'powers that be' worry about giving away something and not gettin... BRIAN PLATTER In terms of promoting myself, if you get a manager or an agent they'll look for speaking engagements... RAFE JUDKINS One hundred and fifty thousand Cambodian people in the United States now were either born in a refug... SARUN CHAN My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. DUKE SNIDER One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars? JEANIENE FROST It's only a couple of thousand dollars for the whole group, CHARLES POTTER Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you... BILLY SUNDAY Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life. PAUL SCOFIELD For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big b... CHARLES SCHWAB Fifty million dollars is more of a symbolic gesture from the Korean government. DANIEL KIM Don't twerk on my donk. That paint job was thirty thousand dollars. DONK CONTEST The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, / Beside th... BIBLE You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread. HENRY MILLER And I don't mean just a few extra dollars. You really need several thousand dollars more per month t... JOYCE THOMPSON I’ve killed fifty-two people. But really all I want is to get my hands on her. I’d be happy with... SALLY GREEN I have nothing against Gary [Grossinger], ... but if you are going to spend millions of dollars on s... CHRIS DONOVAN I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand doll... NOLAN RYAN I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing... ALEX TREBEK Contact your financial institution and explain what you have done. Hopefully you will fall under the... DENNIS HORTON There's a $2 million pool sitting out there abandoned, built ... a year after Prop 13 was passed, ..... DON SCHRADER Why are you offering me ten thousand dollars a month for babysitting? You didn’t pay the nannies t... JENNIFER CRUSIE I want those thousand years with you, Evie, you have no idea how much I want them. I want a thousand... AMY A. BARTOL I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. SAMUEL GOLDWYN I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than ret... EMO PHILIPS When I read about her protesting, I sent a thousand dollars of my own money to get myself and my chi... DAWN ROWE I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred word... BRIAN ANDREAS She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket.... ANN BRASHARES It just happened for me. I don't know why. It just came to me. I won eighty thousand dollars after t... MAURICE GORDON It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture... JOHN RUSKIN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD When a novel has two hundred thousand words, then it is possible for the reader to experience two hu... JANE SMILEY To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy you... RITA RUDNER For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'... ALBERT R. BROCCOLI Ordinarily comfortable inventories would mean lower prices -- probably closer to fifty-five dollars.... TOBIN GOREY I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who ... DAVE BARRY Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more. CATULLUS A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him two--that's subtraction. MAE WEST We deal with several thousand dollars worth of tobacco a week. LEON SMITH Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign. CY YOUNG God please give me patients, good will and one million dollars. If that's too much then you can keep... ANONYMOUS Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, Then another thousand, then a second hundred, The... CATULLUS Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. BILL GATES You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand
sesterces; lend me rather a hundred th... MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL We spend, on average, a couple of hundred thousand dollars an episode, which is a fraction of what t... JEFF GASPIN
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt? BABE RUTH Paris ain't much of a town. BABE RUTH Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder. BABE RUTH Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit. BABE RUTH All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. BABE RUTH If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600. BABE RUTH I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand... BABE RUTH Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that... BABE RUTH All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it... BABE RUTH If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. BABE RUTH I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobac... BABE RUTH Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do. BABE RUTH I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands. BABE RUTH Let me show you how it's done... Loser! BABE RUTH Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see? BABE RUTH As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if ... BABE RUTH It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. BABE RUTH It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up. BABE RUTH The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua... BABE RUTH Watch my dust. BABE RUTH I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. BABE RUTH I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. BABE RUTH I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. BABE RUTH The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua... BABE RUTH Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. BABE RUTH I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing ... BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up. BABE RUTH Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bi... BABE RUTH Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. BABE RUTH It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up BABE RUTH How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The har... BABE RUTH If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. BABE RUTH Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do. BABE RUTH Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. BABE RUTH I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout. BABE RUTH All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it... BABE RUTH Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. BABE RUTH Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. BABE RUTH I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands. BABE RUTH I think we've done a lot better than expected against some of these teams, ... These are teams that ... BABE RUTH Let me show you how it's done ... Loser! BABE RUTH I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump [Wrigley Field] all the time. BABE RUTH Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. BABE RUTH Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I ... BABE RUTH I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a gl... BABE RUTH If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600. BABE RUTH Paris ain't much of a town. BABE RUTH You know the amazing thing? I love Henry Aaron . I think he's a wonderful guy and a great credit for... BABE RUTH I can't have 3, ... so I just put a 1 in front of it. Also, I was a big Dan Marino fan growing up an... BABE RUTH Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written abo... BABE RUTH As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd ... BABE RUTH Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game BABE RUTH I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining. BABE PALEY I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness. BABE PALEY The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me. BABE PALEY Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement. BABE PALEY All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it bec... BABE PALEY Even on my worst day I'm Kill'n it! BOSS BABE After the Red Sox won in 1967, people would flock in there to see anything. There was a mystique to ... BABE PARILLI I'd go out and get plenty of respect. But they would still call me Gino. He would go out and be call... BABE PARILLI We had great fans, but they were hard fans. They used to cheer when I got hurt. We did have to prove... BABE PARILLI The New York Giants had been big in New England for years ? they were New England's team. Their game... BABE PARILLI Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recrea... BABE DIDRIKSON I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters... BABE PALEY You can't win them all -- but you can try. BABE ZAHARIAS It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball ... BABE ZAHARIAS You can never be too rich or too thin. BABE PALEY I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. BABE ZAHARIAS We adopted a pug with cancer and changed his name from Lucas to Lulu Guinness. I’m in the process ... BABE WALKER Loosen your girdle and let er fly! BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentrat... BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be ... BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreat... BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds. BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be... BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball ... BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let t... BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal. RUTH REICHL The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new for... RUTH BERNHARD My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower... RUTH REICHL Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television... RUTH RENDELL Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly ... RUTH RENDELL If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruise... RUTH PORAT I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look ... RUTH OZEKI Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading. RUTH OZEKI There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can b... RUTH REICHL When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ... RUTH NEGGA You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl... RUTH SMELTZER All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio... RUTH ROSS I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thi... RUTH WILSON I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry ble... RUTH REICHL We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe... RUTH RENDELL We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve. RUTH ROSS Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. RUTH GRAHAM A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. RUTH BEECHICK To be somebody you must last. RUTH GORDON There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. RUTH ROSS Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. RUTH HUBBARD Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy... RUTH MORGAN In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose. RUTH ROSS In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day... RUTH BENEDICT To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t... RUTH GORDON Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre... RUTH STOUT Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak... RUTH BENEDICT No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an... RUTH BENEDICT If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves... RUTH BENEDICT A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active... RUTH BENEDICT We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. RUTH BENEDICT Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. RUTH BENEDICT The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th... RUTH GORDON To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the... RUTH HUBBARD The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions ... RUTH HUBBARD The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ... RUTH BENEDICT When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt. RUTH ALMOG Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. RUTH STOUT The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa... RUTH BENEDICT In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'l... RUTH REICHL Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex. RUTH BENEDICT Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. RUTH GORDON The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data. RUTH PORAT A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. RUTH BROWN You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know abo... RUTH REICHL Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way th... RUTH REICHL 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It... RUTH RENDELL The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for ... RUTH REICHL The knives of jealousy are honed on details. RUTH RENDELL I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural tr... RUTH OZEKI He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one... RUTH PARK If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegran... RUTH REICHL If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag y... RUTH GLICK I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec... RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ... RUTH B Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley ... RUTH REICHL To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiou... RUTH HARRIS I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. RUTH STOUT By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminish... RUTH REICHL Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ... RUTH OZEKI Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I... RUTH REICHL Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her. RUTH NEGGA I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful. RUTH HANDLER Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ... RUTH HANDLER It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much... RUTH PORAT The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what... RUTH WILSON Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. RUTH REICHL The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. RUTH BENEDICT The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social exper... RUTH REICHL The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make... RUTH OZEKI The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on ... RUTH BUZZI In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of peo... RUTH HARRISON Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of ... RUTH GORDON Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized. RUTH WILSON I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishi... RUTH OZEKI If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease. RUTH REICHL I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford... RUTH RENDELL They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. RUTH HANDLER My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining... RUTH REICHL Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, co... RUTH GLICK My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm l... RUTH BUZZI In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te... RUTH RENDELL The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. RUTH RENDELL I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective... RUTH RENDELL One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of... RUTH WARE I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse... RUTH REINHARDT Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I... RUTH NEGGA I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha... RUTH BENEDICT Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. RUTH GORDON You have to have a talent for having talent. RUTH GORDON In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them. RUTH GORDON Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ... RUTH HUBBARD You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him. RUTH ELLIS People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won... RUTH RENDELL Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau? RUTH SAUNDERS M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end ... RUTH REICHL Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye... RUTH REINHARDT I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ... RUTH RENDELL I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal... RUTH REICHL Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system. RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then... RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on... RUTH PINKERTON What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were... RUTH REICHL She's another Tina Turner is what I see, RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ... RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays. RUTH BROWN And, of course, I was singing cheap. RUTH BROWN There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o... RUTH BROWN We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe... RUTH HUBBARD In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ... RUTH NEGGA We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th... RUTH RENDELL People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ... RUTH OZEKI People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no... RUTH RENDELL My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means underst... RUTH REICHL I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n... RUTH NEGGA I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit. CHARLES RUTH My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ... RUTH RENDELL Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950... RUTH RENDELL Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. RUTH ASAWA