Miss Rumphius Quotes

#1. If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

Simon Van Booy

#3. 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

Barbara Cooney

#4. When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

Edmund White

#5. Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.

Alan Cohen

#6. (The best advice her mother ever gave her: "Walk in like you own the place.")

Emily St. John Mandel

#7. I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

Johnny Carson