Ruth B > Ruth's Quotes

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!”
― John Fante

“A tip from Lubitsch: 'Let the audience add up two plus two and they'll love you forever.”
― Charlotte Chandler, Nobody's Perfect: A Personal Biography of Billy Wilder

“يأسرني أولئك الذين يحبون بلا خوف من العواقب، وينفعلون بلا حيطة، ويكرهون ويحبون بلا تعقل، وأنظر بإعجاب إلى المشاعر البسيطة وإلى السلوك الذي لا يأبه بالمضاعفات.”
― Charlotte Chandler, I, Fellini

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
― Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 01

“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
― Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley

“One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”
― Tove Jansson

“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”
― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“I'm not a girl. I'm a hatchet”
― Judy Grahn