Top 100 Rufus Quotes
#1. On the three pigs he and his wife own: We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn't want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda.
John Mortimer
#2. Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that."
"Do you have some better suggestion?"
"Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?
Tessa Dare
#3. Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
Rufus King
#4. I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
Rufus Wainwright
#5. Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
Rufus Sewell
#6. We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.
Anneli Rufus
#7. Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.
Rufus Sewell
#8. I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.
Rufus Jones
#9. I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
Rufus Wainwright
#11. For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.
Rufus Sewell
#12. I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.
Rufus Wainwright
#14. Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.
Holly Black
#15. I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.
J. Rufus Fears
#16. I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
Rufus Sewell
#17. The mages wouldn't be happy at all if they knew you were going after him. Master Rufus - "
"Let's kill him," Call said. Havoc growled.
"Master Rufus?" Aaron looked alarmed.
"No, of course not Master Rufus! I meant Jasper," Call said.
Cassandra Clare
#18. We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
Rufus Choate
#19. I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.
Rufus Sewell
#20. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.
Rufus Sewell
#22. If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.
Rufus Wainwright
#23. It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#24. Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
Rufus Wainwright
#25. A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#26. Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.
Alan Rufus
#27. Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.
Anneli Rufus
#28. Climate change has always been sort of my main focus. I think also with [what happened in Fukushima, Japan] there's still a lot to think about in terms of what's coming down the pike into the world's oceans, too.
Rufus Wainwright
#29. I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.
Rico Love
#30. Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.
Rufus Choate
#31. Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
Rufus Wainwright
#33. Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.
Anneli Rufus
#34. I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
Rufus Wainwright
#36. Morse code didn't leave a paper trail, or an email thread on the screen of your tablet. She would never be able to scroll back and reread the exchange she'd just had with Rufus.
Neal Stephenson
#37. I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
Rufus Wainwright
#38. Note To Self!
I will stay calm and relaxed no matter what confronts me today, tomorrow and everyday forth!
Allan Rufus
#39. I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
Rufus Sewell
#40. There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.
Rufus Choate
#41. I would love to play with Rufus Wainwright. He's one of my favorite songwriters.
Sydney Wayser
#42. So this is love:
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings.
Milan Rufus
#43. There always comes the day when children swallow
the key to the door of secrecy. They'll not return it.
Milan Rufus
#44. Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
Rufus Wainwright
#45. My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth.
Rufus Wainwright
#46. That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.
Rufus Wainwright
#47. Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theories of magic by the lifting of a single bushy eyebrow.
Cassandra Clare
#49. Its Constitution
the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
Rufus Choate
#50. I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.
Rufus Wainwright
#51. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!
Alan Rufus
#52. I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
Rufus Wainwright
#53. Love is magical, it changes and brightens up your world!
Allan Rufus
#54. I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
Rufus Wainwright
#55. A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#56. One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
Rufus Wainwright
#57. The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.
Anneli Rufus
#59. I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.
Rufus Wainwright
#60. When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.
Rufus Wainwright
#61. Loners can play well with others-the right others,
Anneli Rufus
#62. Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing.
Rufus Reid
#63. As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
Rufus Sewell
#65. Some of us have spent our whole lives committing suicide. And some of us survived.
Anneli Rufus
#66. I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
Rufus Wainwright
#67. I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.
Rufus Wainwright
#69. A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.
Rufus Sewell
#70. At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.
Rufus Sewell
#71. Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.
Rufus Wainwright
#72. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#73. Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.
Anneli Rufus
#74. I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.
Rufus Wainwright
#75. I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.
Rufus Wainwright
#76. You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.
Rufus Reid
#77. I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
Rufus Sewell
#78. Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.
Rufus Wainwright
#79. Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#80. Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.
Rufus Wainwright
#81. Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.
Rufus Sewell
#82. Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife ... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.
Rufus Wainwright
#83. The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.
Rufus Wainwright
#84. Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
Rufus Jones
#85. Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.
Rufus Wainwright
#86. Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.
Rufus Wainwright
#87. I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I wasn't abused as a child, so I'm doing okay!
Rufus Wainwright
#88. Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
Rufus Choate
#89. It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.
Rufus Sewell
#90. For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.
Rufus Wainwright
#91. When I was signed, at the age of 23 ... the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.
Rufus Wainwright
#92. Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#93. And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.
Rufus Wainwright
#94. I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.
Rufus Sewell
#95. The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
J. Rufus Fears
#97. I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.
Rufus Wainwright
#98. I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
Rufus Sewell
#99. You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.
Rufus Wainwright
#100. I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
Rufus Wainwright
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