Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 7, 1927 - April 3, 2013

Topics

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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

John Millington Synge

LanguageIrishSaint Patrick's Day

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Sol Wachtler

WomanControlLegalBodyRightOwn

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Lord Kelvin

ScienceRestPhysicsOnlyStamp

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

Joshua Chamberlain

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I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar.

Jon Hamm

NeverWantedTom

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

Armstrong Williams

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I think you should check out 'Battle: Los Angeles' because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it's not. It's not like anything you've seen before. The best way to describe it is it's a war movie that happens to have aliens as the enemy.

Noel Fisher

BestWarThinkBattleYouEnemy

Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on.

Ryan Holmes

BestOpportunitiesThinkHandsLeave

I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while.

Ryan Sheckler

DownI CanSummerKidOutNormal

I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'

Marti Noxon

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I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

Mark Millar

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Music is pretty therapeutic.

Jamie Bell

MusicPrettyTherapeutic

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