Rules The Roost Quotes

#1. No wonder Philippe always looked so exhausted," he said ruefully when he was through. "It's very fatiguing pretending you're in charge when your wife actually rules the roost.

Deborah Harkness

#2. There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.

Rufus Wainwright

#3. Dean bristled at the idea of outsiders on our turf. I completely understood his apprehension. New people tended to want to kill us. I don't know why. We were nice people.

Suzanne M. Sabol

#4. I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

Chuck Robb

#5. His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. "I thought I heard something."
"Yeah, well, guess what? I'm a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

Becca Fitzpatrick

#6. What's up? I'm Harris. I'm 33 years young. I have my cousin Jason's truck for two more weeks. I have one testicle-whack a mole accident-and I'm down to clown.

Harris Wittels

#7. Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

Francis Bacon

#8. Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

Kamal Ahmed

#9. When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

Paul Cornell

#10. Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle in

Anne Barone

#11. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

Eric S. Raymond

#12. I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Marilyn Monroe

#13. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

Douglas MacArthur

#14. A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Ivan Turgenev

#15. To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Joyce Meyer

#16. The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

Alfred Kazin

#17. Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

Rick Riordan