Marie Rutkoski Quotes

Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.

Marie Rutkoski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 5, 1977

Topics

BeautifulBestMePromisesBookYou

The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.

Andrea M. Ghez

StarsSmallBlackKeyYouProving

The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching 'Hell Drivers,' a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the 'Daily Record.' This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, 'Dad, you've not got long to go - don't you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?'

John Niven

DailyTimeCultureReadingThink

The best customers for us are the ones that present us with a new problem because chances are, if one customer has that problem, 100 more have it, or 1,000, or 10,000. So you start thinking about solution development rather than product development.

Michael Dell

BestStartThinkingPresentProblem

I threw my son, Brandon, a rave for his birthday and I fully set it up like a crazy rave with lights and sound, me and my partner DJ'd - I got Mix Master Mike from the Beastie Boys to come DJ for a bit.

Tommy Lee

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Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

Rod Stewart

BusinessDayInsecurityWake UpYou

Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So when you see an animal licking a wound or even a mom kissing a child's boo-boo, there's some, there's some good science behind why one might do this.

Mary Roach

GoodGrowthScienceAnimalChild

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

Mike Wallace

VoiceFaceThinkAnchorMayDefied

I got family members that's police officers. I don't got no problem if you a cop, as long as y'all doing y'all job, and y'all not harassing.

Juice Wrld

FamilyPoliceJobProblemDoingYou

It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

Shay Mitchell

WaterQualitySkinNewKindAir

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Tyler Oakley

StoryYouGoWaySameAudience

The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.

Timothy Simons

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No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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