Ruth Prawer Jhabvala quote: "The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden."

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but ...
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you me...
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysi...
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what ...
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for ma...
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA

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

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

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

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe...
RUTH RENDELL

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 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 Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It...
RUTH RENDELL

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for ...
RUTH REICHL

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
RUTH RENDELL

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

I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford...
RUTH RENDELL

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

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

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

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
RUTH GORDON

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ...
RUTH HUBBARD

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The har...
BABE RUTH

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
BABE RUTH

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
BABE RUTH

I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
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

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
BABE RUTH

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won...
RUTH RENDELL

Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau?
RUTH SAUNDERS

M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end ...
RUTH REICHL

Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT

I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ...
RUTH RENDELL

I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal...
RUTH REICHL

Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system.
RUTH PORAT

I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL

Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on...
RUTH PINKERTON

What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were...
RUTH REICHL

She's another Tina Turner is what I see,
RUTH BROWN

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ...
RUTH BROWN

Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.
RUTH BROWN

And, of course, I was singing cheap.
RUTH BROWN

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN

We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe...
RUTH HUBBARD

In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ...
RUTH NEGGA

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th...
RUTH RENDELL

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ...
RUTH OZEKI

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means underst...
RUTH REICHL

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n...
RUTH NEGGA

I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit.
CHARLES RUTH

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

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.
RUTH ASAWA

He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ...
RUTH CISERO

To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce...
RUTH BERNHARD

We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see.
RUTH AITKEN

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL

And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buc...
CHARLES RUTH

The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewe...
RUTH COLEMAN

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH

Even though this pegs to 150 percent of market, the premiums are still lower or benefits more expans...
RUTH CASE

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
RUTH GORDON

I was like the queen of the South.
RUTH BROWN

The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w...
RUTH LIGGETT

I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly...
RUTH RENDELL

If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I f...
RUTH NEGGA

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o...
RUTH OZEKI

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core...
RUTH GLICK

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humili...
RUTH RENDELL

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
RUTH BROWN

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something calle...
RUTH REICHL

Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being un...
RUTH REICHL

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
RUTH BROWN

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
RUTH BROWN

There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stu...
RUTH BROWN

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as ...
RUTH BROWN

I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows.
RUTH BROWN

We get more complaints now because of the cost. Insurance companies are looking at limiting benefits...
RUTH CASE

The American dream is to have your own home and to have some sort of security with health insurance....
RUTH CASE

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RUTH WARRICK

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the intern...
RUTH ASAWA

Anthony is the anti-aesthete,
RUTH REICHL

We applaud the FDA for defining what whole grain is. Unfortunately, the FDA has not defined any clai...
RUTH LITCHFIELD

I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent ...
RUTH RENDELL

I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with ...
RUTH PORAT

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on ...
RUTH FIRST

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I ...
RUTH RENDELL

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth
RUTH MCKENNEY

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

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