Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the stor...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is ali...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to tho...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible le...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Monta...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going t...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wr...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Let the little fairy in you fly!
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and t...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once yo...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughte...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to bel...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific th...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It sto...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a s...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie indust...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken hallelujah
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I am disappointed that my parents didn't give birth to a porn star
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the truimph of good ove...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT This song kinda matches this place,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Everything's been fair game in our family,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that p...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Dinner at eight was okaybefore the toast full of gleams.It was great until those old magazinesgot us...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But re...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT “It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.”
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions som...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prim...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT 'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I woul...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Dinner at eight was okay
before the toast full of gleams.
It was great until those old magaz...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT As long as they say bullpen in St. Louis, then I'm all for it. I still think of myself as a starter....
ADAM WAINWRIGHT I think I can do way better. I'm not real pleased with today. I got out of some situations and pitch...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped.
ADAM WAINWRIGHT Today, I really struggled staying back on the rubber and getting the ball down. But when I did, you ...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT It was nice of Jason to let me start that game. He didn't have to let me do that. It was nice to get...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT I learned a lot from him.
ADAM WAINWRIGHT I go in thinking about whatever they'll let me do at the big-league level. You never know what happe...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT For the most part my year went pretty good. I had a couple abysmal starts that really ruined my stat...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT If I play a bad round, which I've been having lately, Mulder will let me have it. I've heard his who...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
JOHN WAINWRIGHT The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man'...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of a...
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even th...
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Reading is no substitute for action.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT That's probably how dentistry was in the 1800s, before they had anesthetics. That's how I felt.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT We're not mature enough yet. But to be 7-4 [with our strong] schedule ... speaks an awful lot about ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying th...
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT We never gave ourselves a chance to win. But I don't think we have despair in our game; it's frustra...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done t...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT They humbled us on the glass.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT The game was dictated at the free-throw line. You can't miss 11 and win at this level.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT Sammy played 38 minutes against their best player and never once [complained]. He did everything we ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT There are some incredible swings this season. More so than I've ever seen.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT They're (Wake Forest) going to have a terrific year, and obviously this is a great confidence builde...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT The only thing I would say is that when you play Wake, you have to pick your poison. We tried to clo...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT The biggest thing, when you play teams like this, you've got to stand in the middle of the ring. You...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT His ankle is really not swollen, but we have to get it evaluated, both he and Marlon.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!
W.O. WAINWRIGHT I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced m...
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT I certainly hope it will do what people say that it will do,
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. ...
RUFUS SEWELL We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Unio...
RUFUS CHOATE We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
RUFUS CHOATE Life is like a sandwich!

Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you p...
ALLAN RUFUS Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make c...
ALLAN RUFUS A book is the only immortality.
RUFUS CHOATE Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate lov...
RUFUS CHOATE The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
RUFUS CHOATE Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
RUFUS CHOATE Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I c...
RUFUS SEWELL Quotes and notes to self- Divine and Unique Power

Find out what my Individual Divine
ALLAN RUFUS I wish you all
an ego free
driven day!
ALLAN RUFUS Note to Self – Thoughts design my energy!

My

thoughts

WILL
<...
ALLAN RUFUS Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!
ALLAN RUFUS NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT

My words, thoughts and deeds have

a boomera...
ALLAN RUFUS Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!

Your life mainly consists of 3 thi...
ALLAN RUFUS Hard work does not go unnoticed,
and someday the rewards will follow
ALLAN RUFUS The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole glo...
RUFUS KING Your inner strength is your outer foundation
ALLAN RUFUS I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays...
RUFUS SEWELL We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of t...
RUFUS CHOATE Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Decla...
RUFUS CHOATE Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
RUFUS CHOATE The key part of your brand is a quality product. Creating exceptional content is the number one thin...
RUFUS GRISCOM I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and...
RUFUS SEWELL Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
RUFUS JONES The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.
ANNELI RUFUS People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got ...
RUFUS SEWELL Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that ...
RUFUS SEWELL We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Ov...
ANNELI RUFUS It has been said 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer'. This statement is most assuredly...
RUFUS RHODEN This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.
RUFUS KING I'm not crazy, I'm sanity challenged.
RUFUS RHODEN I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I ...
RUFUS SEWELL We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called....
ANNELI RUFUS And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the ...
ANNELI RUFUS Life is like a box of chocolates, it mostly tastes like shit.
RUFUS RHODEN There are two kinds of people I don't like being around, stupid people and ugly people. I guess that...
RUFUS RHODEN Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate lov...
RUFUS CHOATE There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people go...
RUFUS CHOATE Good or evil? It's really just a matter of perspective.
RUFUS RHODEN The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the ...
RUFUS JONES Feast of Mark the Evangelist The reason why we can hope to find God is that He is here, engaged al...
RUFUS JONES Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus
ALLAN RUFUS Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!

Don’t

be caught up in yo...
ALLAN RUFUS Your Hands And Feet
Gets Your Mind
To Where It Wants To Be!
ALLAN RUFUS Note To Self!
I will stay calm and relaxed no matter what confronts me today, tomorrow and ever...
ALLAN RUFUS The Master's Sacred Knowledge.

Love is the treasure you should seek!

The grea...
ALLAN RUFUS Love is magical, it changes and brightens up your world!
ALLAN RUFUS Negative Thoughts, Actions
and Deeds Create Emotions,
and these Emotions WILL
EAT YOU...
ALLAN RUFUS The most incredible architecture
Is the architecture of Self,
which is ever changing, evol...
ALLAN RUFUS They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does - when you can't get enough of it.
ANNELI RUFUS Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob ...
ANNELI RUFUS I'd like an omelet named after me.
RUFUS SEWELL When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so m...
RUFUS SEWELL Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I&#...
RUFUS SEWELL I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got ...
RUFUS SEWELL If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!
ALLAN RUFUS I think if you lower the limits on money it would encourage our elected officials to get into their ...
RUFUS JONES The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte immine...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sed...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat.,...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainl...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I we...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sens...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destr...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit lik...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Fear makes men believe the worst.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
RUFUS M. JONES A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 The great wonder is ...
RUFUS M. JONES Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ...
GENERAL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT A book is the only immortality.
RUFUS CHOATE EDWARD YOUNG