Top 99 Rucker Quotes
#1. Hit ain't sacrilege. Miss Effie Belle says when she cain't think what to have for dinner, she asts God and right off He gives her an idea. To my thinkin', thet's sacrilege."
Miss Love really laughed. "There's not a woman in the world who hasn't prayed what to cook for dinner, Rucker!
Olive Ann Burns
#2. No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.
Kevin Durant
#3. I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
Randy Houser
#4. Come on then!" Lussk was laughing, jeering as the things charged at him. He'd stopped fighting them off and instead had allowed them full access to his wrists, which Rucker saw he'd slashed open with a dinner knife. Blood poured from his arms. "Come on and take me!" His voice became a scream.
Joe Schreiber
#5. Earl "The Goat" Manigault was probably the greatest basketball player of all time, but Michael Jordan is universally regarded as the best ever. This is because The Goat only did it at Rucker Park, while Michael did it where it mattered: in front of the world.
Tucker Max
#6. In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you
can't get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic class-three
and class-four zones.
Rudy Rucker, story notes, Mathies in Love
Rudy Rucker
#7. I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.
Darius Rucker
#8. We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.
Darius Rucker
#9. Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Rudy Rucker
#10. I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.
Darius Rucker
#11. Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
Rudy Rucker
#12. If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker
#13. Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Rudy Rucker
#14. Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
Melinda Rucker Haynes
#15. Look here, cousin," Big Country's drawled in the background. "This here's a car. We just got off a plane, and no matter how fast you push this bitch, she ain't gon' fly, so believe me when I say, I refuse to die over some foolishness you call love, not today.
Shay Rucker
#16. We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York.
Darius Rucker
#17. Take away the crazy, three-quarters of the possessiveness, enhance his communication skills, and decrease his love for sticking people with sharp objects, and she wouldn't hesitate to have sex with him. She was barely hesitating as it was.
Shay Rucker
#18. One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.
Darius Rucker
#19. It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.
Rudy Rucker
#20. All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.
Darius Rucker
#21. When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
Darius Rucker
#22. Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
Rudy Rucker
#23. I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Rudy Rucker
#24. A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.
Rudy Rucker
#25. Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.
Rudy Rucker
#26. You really think anyone else would put up with you? Yep. Do you want to see more men die?
Shay Rucker
#27. In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
Rudy Rucker
#28. I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.
That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said, hopping out.
Rudy Rucker
#29. There are no normal people - just look at your relatives,
Rudy Rucker
#30. You have got to stop with the severed body parts, he (Lynx) shouted as he righted himself. This is the twenty-first century, man. You don't have to do this barbaric shit. Buy a gun, put a bullet in them. Pop, pop, bad man goes down. Done.
Shay Rucker
#31. At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Rudy Rucker
#33. Somehow I fell asleep in the graveyard.
Rudy Rucker
#34. I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.
Darius Rucker
#36. Swap out one of these men with the mute, and I'll be right as rain," Randy said from his spot near the kitchen entrance.
"Thought we were besties," Bride mumbled into the shot of rum she'd pilfered from Randy's cabinet.
Shay Rucker
#37. Body language translation: hell yes, dipshit
Shay Rucker
#38. Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.
Darius Rucker
#39. I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Rudy Rucker
#40. The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.
Eric Rucker Eddison
#41. The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Rudy Rucker
#42. Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Rudy Rucker
#43. The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth.
Rudy Rucker
#44. No one can point to the fourth dimension, yet it is all around us.
Rudy Rucker
#45. A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
Rudy Rucker
#46. You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.
Darius Rucker
#47. All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
Rudy Rucker
#48. Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Rudy Rucker
#49. We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.
Darius Rucker
#50. It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
Rudy Rucker
#51. The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone
Eric Rucker Eddison
#52. The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
Rudy Rucker
#53. I expect to make a career out of country music.
Darius Rucker
#54. Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?
Rudy Rucker
#55. You didn't see what just happened. I did. Saw it, felt it, tasted it." His hand gripped and squeezed her thigh as if determining its strength. "You came so hard you nearly crushed my skull between your legs. If I wasn't so hardheaded, I'd be dead.
Shay Rucker
#56. I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.
Darius Rucker
#57. Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.
Darius Rucker
#58. Once you're born, the worst has already happened.
Rudy Rucker
#59. When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
Darius Rucker
#60. America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.
Rudy Rucker
#61. Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.
Darius Rucker
#62. The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.
Rudy Rucker
#63. The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.
Rudy Rucker
#64. There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.
Darius Rucker
#65. I like to do things that are surprising and different.
Rudy Rucker
#66. When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
Darius Rucker
#67. Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Rudy Rucker
#68. This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?
Rudy Rucker
#69. Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.
Darius Rucker
#70. If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Rudy Rucker
#71. Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
Rudy Rucker
#73. I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.
Rudy Rucker
#74. As Aquinas, the quintessential theologian, says: "The notion of form is most fully realized in existence itself. And in God existence is not acquired by anything, but God is existence itself subsistent. It is clear, then, that God himself is both limitless and perfect."28
Rudy Rucker
#75. Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Rudy Rucker
#76. If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Rudy Rucker
#77. I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.
Darius Rucker
#78. Fun and killing ain't synonyms to regular folks, Zeus."
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Shay Rucker
#79. Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.
Rudy Rucker
#80. Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.
Rudy Rucker
#81. I was strange to keep waking up in the morning feeling good.
Rudy Rucker
#82. No writer worthy of being read, and expecting to be read, writes in a vacuum, however. We write with the anticipation of a reading audience, no matter what that number of unsuspecting souls may be.
Brandon L. Rucker
#83. His heart beat in his chest like a beast slamming into the bars of its cage, fighting to be get free. What was this? Was he dying? Should she die for making him feel this way?
Shay Rucker
#84. The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.
Rudy Rucker
#85. It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!
Darius Rucker
#86. We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
Darius Rucker
#87. I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.
Darius Rucker
#88. But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
Rudy Rucker
#89. It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
Darius Rucker
#90. I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
Darius Rucker
#91. He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.
Eric Rucker Eddison
#92. One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Rudy Rucker
#93. The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.
Rudy Rucker
#94. Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?
Eric Rucker Eddison
#95. If only I could have trapped fire and dreams in jewels, I could have had them forever.
S.T. Rucker
#96. Whether it is a call to action for blood drives, disaster relief, or just community outreach, the American Red Cross does an extraordinary job at not only meeting the immediate needs of a community, but also the preparation and planning for long-term support,
Darius Rucker
#97. Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
Rudy Rucker
#98. It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
Rudy Rucker
#99. I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
Darius Rucker
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