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 We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe...
RUTH RENDELL 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It...
RUTH RENDELL The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
RUTH RENDELL I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford...
RUTH RENDELL 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 People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won...
RUTH RENDELL I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ...
RUTH RENDELL I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th...
RUTH RENDELL People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL 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 I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly...
RUTH RENDELL I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humili...
RUTH RENDELL I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent ...
RUTH RENDELL Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I ...
RUTH RENDELL What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
RUTH RENDELL I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing o...
RUTH RENDELL [Publishers Weekly said] 13 Steps Down ... all her trademark virtues: vivid characters, a plot addic...
RUTH RENDELL My mother had multiple sclerosis.
RUTH RENDELL My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father did...
RUTH RENDELL London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... ...
RUTH RENDELL There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but the...
RUTH RENDELL I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a l...
RUTH RENDELL People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting...
RUTH RENDELL Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am igno...
RUTH RENDELL I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to ...
RUTH RENDELL The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
RUTH RENDELL I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is nev...
RUTH RENDELL I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of mo...
RUTH RENDELL People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone ...
RUTH RENDELL I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in...
RUTH RENDELL Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
RUTH RENDELL Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost ...
ED RENDELL I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and ...
ED RENDELL And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from hav...
ED RENDELL One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests,...
ED RENDELL There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
ED RENDELL Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
ED RENDELL I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
ED RENDELL I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a m...
ED RENDELL Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
ED RENDELL Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
ED RENDELL And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fu...
ED RENDELL I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as ...
ED RENDELL This is a win-win situation, ... I am totally confused as to why this union is going out on strike.
EDWARD RENDELL The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered...
ED RENDELL No question, but I would give priority-all else being equal-I would give the nod to preserving the b...
ED RENDELL If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it...
ED RENDELL If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it...
ED RENDELL I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well...
ED RENDELL To have the 111th here at Willow Grove ... without planes is a bad result, ... Why would you, if you...
ED RENDELL Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
ED RENDELL brings home the crushing reality of this war.
ED RENDELL We're exceptionally gratified, ... I think it's fair to say we're elated.
ED RENDELL That was what crossed the line,
ED RENDELL It's like preparing for a party and learning only 1/10th of the guest are coming,
ED RENDELL WINTER'S GHOST:
Autumn moon
incautious in the dark river
Winter’s ghost walks
...
TAMARA RENDELL The landscape of this city would have been miserably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon not...
ED RENDELL How dare they say that John Kerry is liberal when they have run up the biggest deficit in the histor...
ED RENDELL And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things t...
ED RENDELL The landscape of this city would have been measurably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon no...
ED RENDELL How dare they say things like that when John Kerry supported them on a number of different things an...
ED RENDELL If there is but one pearl of wisdom I have to impart to you, after all my observations here thus far...
NATASHA RENDELL reflects an insensitivity to the victims [and] the victims' families.
ED RENDELL Dreams are like the old stories where wolves are seekers always running, and women carry fire in the...
TAMARA RENDELL For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against wes...
ED RENDELL That person cannot go in and buy 15 guns for resale, because they would be set to that purchaser's o...
EDWARD RENDELL Pennsylvania companies are not only reducing workplace injuries, they are saving hundreds of million...
EDWARD RENDELL These seven companies have demonstrated a strong commitment to workplace safety and exemplify what a...
EDWARD RENDELL All we hear is the usual stuff about, 'We need more time to examine your proposals,' ... That's why ...
EDWARD RENDELL I think we're recommending to [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] no more than 300 people comi...
ED RENDELL I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket,
ED RENDELL triumph of the misuse of power.
ED RENDELL We believe we're ready for them, ... We wanted to make sure we were ready before anybody came. We wa...
ED RENDELL This special session will provide a focused way to deliver on that promise without the influence of ...
ED RENDELL One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational fore...
ED RENDELL Not only is Siemens investing $7.2 million to build this new manufacturing and testing facility, the...
GOVERNOR RENDELL Clean energy production isn't just a matter of environmental protection. It's also vital to homeland...
GOVERNOR RENDELL That doesn't mean we are going to stand down,
ED RENDELL available to me as governor to perform state active-duty missions dealing with homeland security, na...
ED RENDELL It brings home the crushing reality of this war ... and the incredibly high price we pay for what we...
ED RENDELL did the right thing.
ED RENDELL 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 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 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 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 It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH 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 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 To be somebody you must last.
RUTH GORDON The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH 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 Watch my dust.
BABE RUTH 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 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 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 The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH 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 Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH 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 way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for ...
RUTH REICHL 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 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 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 Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bi...
BABE RUTH 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 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 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 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 You have to have a talent for having talent.
RUTH GORDON