Ruminant Quotes

#1. If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant ... Fuck you.

Rich Hall

#2. Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.

Michael Chabon

#3. So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer.

Michael Pollan

#4. He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.

Alex Shakar

#5. Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.

Mallory Ortberg

#6. Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it.

Greg Rucka

#7. Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood ... she just jokes.

Saina Nehwal

#8. Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Jonathan Swift

#9. No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

Jimmy Kimmel

#10. All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid's eyes

Matthew Hayden

#11. When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

Meghan Trainor

#12. Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.

Susan Magsamen

#13. It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

Paula Gunn Allen

#14. Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.

Anne Scott

#15. Live constructively and live optimistically.

Alfred A. Montapert