Top 30 Mr Rosewater Quotes
#1. Like so many great American fortunes, the Rosewater pile was accumulated in the beginning by a humorless, constipated Christian farm boy turned speculator and briber during and after the Civil War.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. Oh Ward, you animal. It gets me so hot and squishy when you call it intercourse.
Benjamin R. Smith
#3. I like to be on the edge of the possible.
Jorn Utzon
#4. Jesus
if Kilgore Trout could only write! Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.
Brene Brown
#6. You just got sprung."
"Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked.
"Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II.
James Lee Burke
#8. Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A veteran of Omaha Beach in 1944, I insisted upon including 'None' instead of P, C, or J as my religious affiliation.
Warren Allen Smith
#9. The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.
Woodrow Wilson
#10. I don't think Trout has ever been out of the country," Rosewater went on. "My God - he writes about Earthlings all the time, and they're all Americans. Practically nobody on Earth is an American.
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. If all things work together for good for them that love God and are called according to His purpose, then this means that billions of plot points are going to come together in the most satisfying cathartic release possible at the end of all time. The
Douglas Wilson
#12. He was losing her incrementally ... As a web is no more than holes woven together, they were bonded by what was no longer there.
Anthony Marra
#14. Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season.
Richard Corliss
#15. The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her.
Michael Scott
#16. Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ...
... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to someone with a flamethrower for hands. Though he'd really lost it when Raven sang the lyric to Disco Inferno.
J.T. Bock
#17. I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
Francois Truffaut
#18. There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
Ruth Reichl
#20. They're still warm, and I burrow into my pillows, catching the faint scent of rosewater. Truly, my bed is the greatest place in the world.
Rae Carson
#22. Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.
Myrtle Reed
#24. The power of music to integrate and cure ... is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
Oliver Sacks
#25. I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.
Colin Marston
#26. She lifted the book to her nose and inhaled the scent lingering in its cardboard bones: a hint of rosewater and Lysol that instantly genie-summoned the Blue Moon Lodge. It was Winnemucca condensed, this book, the only thing she owned that could still predictably take her from here to there.
Armistead Maupin
#27. Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.
Ryan Holmes
#28. After applying foundation and a little blush, dust your face with translucent powder, then mist skin with a rosewater spray and lay a Kleenex over for a second. It makes your face seem flawless in a way that looks as if you aren't wearing any makeup.
Liv Tyler
#29. That's the attractive thing about war," said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. Herbs carried in special baskets, bread wrapped in knotted, muslin cloths, thick stews soured with unripe grape juice, carrots boiled with sugar and rosewater, yoghurt hung from dripping bags, its whey dried in sheets on trays in the sun.
Jennifer Klinec
