Ruth Rendell Quotes

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Ruth Rendell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015

Topics

StoryYouNeverHappenThingsMost

Making films can be very lonely, and that's the part I don't like. I don't want to feel like I'm pressing 'pause' on my personal life to make a movie. I want to feel like I'm still creating relationships and things are moving forward.

Jessica Chastain

LifeMoving ForwardMovingForward

Makeup is a very delicate thing for me - I've got sort of defined features, so I don't like to do too much contour, as it can be a bit severe.

Andreja Pejic

MeMakeupToo MuchGotDelicate

In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.

Subcomandante Marcos

WillUpExpensiveRepeatSitSeat

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

Robbie Robertson

SillyPlayYearsWonderfulGotLast

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Mary Augusta Ward

StoryLookBackYearsLimitTell

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

CommunitySportsGreatCityTeam

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

Joshua Lederberg

LivePurposeBelieveThinkKnowWho

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

Joseph Brodsky

PoetryPlaceEntertainmentCrimeWho

Before, I just don't think we knew how much music was out there; now with MySpace, it's really opened it up. Filmmakers have so much more choice.

Allison Anders

MusicThinkChoiceNowMoreOut

The first thing that I see in a woman are her eyes. Sorry, it sounds shallow, but eyes say a lot about a person.

Ali Fazal

EyesWomanSorryPersonSaySee

The idea that somehow you're going to tax the 'rich' enough to pay for quality health care for every American who doesn't have it, can't afford it or stands to lose it, not to mention for all of the undocumented aliens who receive it for free now and presumably will continue to in Obama health land, is almost laughable.

Susan Estrich

HealthQualityFreeRichAmerican

You always have to make sure your husband knows he isn't going to be replaced.

Penny Lancaster

HusbandYouAlwaysGoingSureYour

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