Ruined By Lynn Nottage Quotes

#1. God, Packard! Do you know how hard I worked at
it?" I twist up the napkin and whip it at him.
He deflects it. "There we go; I knew you could do it."
My mouth falls open. "Very funny."
He just laughs.
"I can't believe you!

Carolyn Crane

#2. May the love at Christmas be with us throughout coming year.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.

Lynn Nottage

#4. Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

David Nicholls

#5. "Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

Guy Garvey

#6. I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.

Lynn Nottage

#7. Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

Stephen Jay Gould

#8. Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#9. Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.

Dennis Lindley

#10. Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

John Updike

#11. The only opportunity the chatterbox ever has to download lies into our heads is if we have allowed it first to delete the memory of who we are in Christ.

Steven Furtick

#12. April 24th was another commemoration of the genocide of Armenia people by Turkey. The perpetrator never admitted the crime. I was raised with that, this question: how do you actually find the truth of such a traumatic event? I'm obsessed with that issue.

Atom Egoyan

#13. The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. Life is like a box of terrible analogies ...

Oscar Wilde

#15. Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

Ellsworth Huntington

#16. We forgive and forget just to give another chance to the person we love or think we love.

M. Howson

#17. Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

Mahmud Tarzi