Rudiment Quotes

#1. There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.

Damien Chazelle

#2. The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

William James

#3. Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else.

Walter Benjamin

#4. The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. During the fifth inning, something came to the edge of the woods and looked at her. Flies and noseeums made a cloud around its rudiment of a face. In the specious brilliance of its eyes was a complete history of nothing. It stood there for a long time.

Stephen King

#6. If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

Diane Ackerman

#7. In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

Roberto Cavalli

#8. I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany in 1933. We have to ask ourselves if we found ourselves in Nazi Germany, what would we do. Now I say, let the inspection process take its course.

David Clennon

#9. The sea, as Euripides says in one of his plays about Iphigenia, washes away the stains and wounds of the world.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.

Michael Ballack

#12. If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.

Bo Burnham

#13. It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Suzy Kassem

#15. Your past doesn't have to dictate who you are, but it can help you discover who you're meant to be.

C.M. Stunich

#16. The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

Voltaire

#17. Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.

Rich Hall

#18. Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got!

Eric Thomas