Top 100 Rupert Quotes
#1. I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?
Tom Hanks
#2. It was only when the light in her eyes was extinguished, at the mention of her father, that Rupert realized how brightly it had burned.
Eva Ibbotson
#3. The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then:
"Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!
Eva Ibbotson
#4. I'm a Friend of Rupert, sing it loud and clear! If you're a Friend of Rupert, then give a great big cheer!
Kyrja
#5. Mrs Downs, a large sad lady who described herself, to Rupert's delight, as bulky but fragile, now came four mornings a week to clean the house. She was one of those people who habitually looked on the black side of everything with a cheerfulness that bordered upon the macabre.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#6. Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner
#7. Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.
Barbara Pym
#8. Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
Keith Olbermann
#9. Fall to your knees and thank God for Fox News. Pray for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Pray for them. Pray for strength and spine, and pray that everybody involved has chicken salad for lunch so it doesn't clog anybody's arteries. Keep them going.
Glenn Beck
#10. Rupert Clockenwall seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt.
Dean Koontz
#11. Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.
Charlie Munger
#12. Because he cared for her. If he were completely honest, he didn't want Rupert to marry her, because he wanted to marry her himself.
Melanie Dickerson
#13. Striding up to him, Wilhelm drew his fist back and landed a clean blow to Rupert's jaw. Rupert reeled, and after two wobbly backward steps, hit the floor on his backside. He raised a hand to his face. "Feel better?" "No. Get up so I can hit you again.
Melanie Dickerson
#14. Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
Jeffrey Kluger
#15. It's alright, we just need to change the conversation, give the fans something new to talk about," said Rupert X. "We'll get new haircuts.
Goldy Moldavsky
#16. I had him in my cab once.
Who? Neville asked
Rupert Brooke. He was good, him. "There's some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England".
That would be the bit with my nose under it; just fucking drive, will you?
Pat Barker
#17. Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.
Hugh Massingberd
#18. I was talking to Rupert Murdoch the other day at a lunch, and he said, 'Maybe I'll live to 100'. He actually thinks he will live to 100!
Gerry Harvey
#19. She thought about all the things she would like to say to him. Thank you for wanting to defend me. Thank you for thinking Rupert is a rogue. Thank you for being a man of integrity. Oh, Lord Hamlin, if you were mine, I'd make you so happy. Rose stifled a laugh at the stupid, outrageous thought.
Melanie Dickerson
#20. As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I think that's where his strength lies.
Benjamin Bratt
#21. I love the look of books published by the firm of Rupert Hart-Davis: They strike me as handsome, elegant, and inviting. I'll pick up almost anything with that imprint, especially if it's in a jacket or priced low.
Michael Dirda
#22. Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
Margo Kingston
#23. I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
Alan Cumming
#24. While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.
Bernie Sanders
#25. I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise - you'd think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.
Astra Taylor
#26. There is nothing to be said except about the sheer waste and futility of it all. It is the war all over again, when one is rung up to be told that Rupert was dead, or that one's brother was killed, and one knew that it was only to produce the kind of world we are living in now. Horrible.
Leonard Woolf
#27. You'll dine with us, Comte? And you, Anthony?"
"I trespass on your hospitality!" Armand protested.
"Devil a bit, man!" said Rupert. "It's Avon's hospitality you trespass on, and our patience.
Georgette Heyer
#28. An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.
Alan Sugar
#29. When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
Kate Fleetwood
#30. Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal.
Matthew Lewis
#31. The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler
#32. In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened, mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality.
Barbara Pym
#33. If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.
Jared Harris
#34. Are you sure this is a good idea?' whispered the unicorn.
'No,' said Rupert. 'But it's our best chance to find a dragon.'
'Frankly, that doesn't strike me as such a hot idea either,' muttered the unicorn.
Simon R. Green
#35. Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.
Emma Watson
#36. The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party, however unpretentious, and that day had now arrived for Rupert Stonebird.
Barbara Pym
#37. But it was very stupid of me not to see that of course the friend of Juliana must be this Mary Challoner. It was stupid of you too, Rupert. More stupid.
Georgette Heyer
#38. Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up.
'What,' he asked the world, 'can you do to erase my laughter?
N.D. Wilson
#39. I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
#40. I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.
Frank Miller
#41. Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
Irwin Winkler
#42. I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise.
Lev Grossman
#43. As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.
Alex Pareene
#44. There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time.
Rufus Wainwright
#45. If Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for content online, he will succeed in so far, but no further than what he provides that is unique and can't be found anywhere. It doesn't seem to me that if he wants to charge it will be a blow to universal freedom and liberty of mankind.
Harold Evans
#46. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.
Loretta Chase
#47. The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army
his valour did not always serve his own cause.
Benjamin Disraeli
#48. I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. "Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga ... what is your name, boy? And don't lie to me, because you live here, and I'll find out who you are."
Bill Cosby
#49. Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#51. At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination.
Muriel Spark
#52. I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert Grint and Til Schweiger and those guys, so you really want to make sure that they, that I don't have to shut off the camera because I'm running out of film or it becomes too expensive.
Fredrik Bond
#54. How was yer first time, Jamie? Did ye bleed? shouted Rupert
Diana Gabaldon
#55. On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
Alan Rickman
#56. Oh, I think Rupert's gorgeous. He is, he's totally gorgeous! Very handsome, very handsome indeed.
Emma Watson
#57. People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?
Andy Kindler
#58. Holding a large object aloft, she went after him, and the fellow ran. Then something struck the back of Rupert's head. The world went black with flashing lights. The ground opened up under his feet, and down he went.
Loretta Chase
#59. Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
Conrad Black
#60. 300 million people turned into jelly by The Wave and Rupert Murdoch wasn't one of them. There is no god.
John Birmingham
#61. The quantum hologram is a mechanism to explain this concept of the ancients of the Akashic Records. It also explains Rupert Sheldrake's work among animals [his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, leading to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory].
Edgar Mitchell
#62. Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.
Frank Kusy
#63. What you really are afraid of is that you're competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to be a given, a saying in the industry: Don't ever bid against Rupert Murdoch for anything Rupert wants, because if you win you lose. You will have paid way too much.
John C. Malone
#64. I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
Ben Affleck
#65. Don't worry, I didn't take a hit off Rupert K.'s inhaler. I wasn't that sick.
I only pressed the mouthpiece against my lips.
Goldy Moldavsky
#66. I have had it all tested for poison," he assured Harry. "Had a house-elf taste every bottle after what happened to your poor friend Rupert.
J.K. Rowling
#67. He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about The Independent. And that was wrong.
Alastair Campbell
#68. So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing ... And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.
Rupert Grint
#69. To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Rupert Everett
#70. Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
Rupert Holmes
#72. I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.
Rupert Grint
#73. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders.
Rupert Grint
#74. We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.
Rupert Murdoch
#75. The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.
Rupert Graves
#76. The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.
Rupert Spira
#77. I've loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I'm in the best company. I've done one West End show before this but the excitement here ... it's incredible. It's been a real education working on this, I don't feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous.
Rupert Grint
#78. From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.
Rupert Everett
#79. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out all the years.
Rupert Brooke
#80. It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#81. When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.
Rupert Spira
#82. I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
Rupert Murdoch
#83. One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
Rupert Murdoch
#84. My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#85. We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
Rupert Murdoch
#86. The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.
Rupert Thomson
#87. A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
Rupert Holmes
#88. I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
Rupert Holmes
#89. Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke
#90. It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.
Rupert Graves
#91. I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
Rupert Everett
#92. Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
Rupert Murdoch
#93. So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.
Rupert Sanders
#94. Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
Rupert Murdoch
#95. What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?
Rupert Murdoch
#96. Down the blue night the unending columns press
In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
Rupert Brooke
#97. At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.
Rupert Murdoch
#98. There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
Rupert Sheldrake
#99. The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn't even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.
Rupert Thomson
#100. If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
Rupert Everett
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