Ruffed Quotes

#1. The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.

Mike Harding

#2. The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Graves

#3. Everything's a bad metaphor for sex.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#4. Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

E. Franklin Frazier

#6. You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

John Schneider

#7. Yes I am weird
But no one normal made it into the hall of fame.

Me

#8. Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.

Diana Wynne Jones

#9. In a smooth, unhurried motion, Jenks reached out and slapped him. "Seems to me you should pull the brains out of your ass.

Kim Harrison

#10. I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

Matthew Rhys

#11. He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

Lech Walesa