Ruck Quotes

#1. To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.

Julian Ruck

#2. I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

Alan Ruck

#3. I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Alan Moore

#4. Truth is the highest knowledge.
Faith is the highest courage.
Reason is the highest wisdom.
Love is the highest virtue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.

Geoffrey Hill

#6. That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"
he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage
"is a Hurst 5,000 PSI hydraulic spreader-cutter, more commonly know as the Jaws of Life."
"So?"
"So I'm not a normal boy.

Ally Carter

#7. Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.

Alan Ruck

#8. We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won't all come true; we won't always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

Tommy Douglas

#9. Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Abdus Salam

#10. When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

Alan Ruck

#11. I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

Alan Ruck

#12. I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.

Alan Ruck

#13. This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

Jan Hein Donner

#14. I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Henry Cloud

#15. Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing.

Libba Bray

#16. The only magic in our lives as runners is the magic of consistency. Not every run will make you feel great.

John Bingham

#17. 'Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time.

Alan Ruck

#18. Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.

Tom O'Reilly

#19. I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.

Alan Ruck

#20. I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.

Alan Ruck

#21. The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Robert J. Shiller

#22. People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller, and it would really aggravate me. I thought I was a one-trick pony, and people had seen the trick. Now that things have worked out and I've gone on to other things, I'm really pleased that people enjoy it.

Alan Ruck

#23. Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman.

Berta Ruck