Rusk University Quotes

#1. I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

Red Adair

#2. It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.

Louis Auchincloss

#3. We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

Marcel Proust

#4. For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

James Allen

#5. If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Romola Garai

#6. Because Mateo Torres is loud, and I'm quiet. Because he's reckless, and I'm cautious. Because he belongs everywhere, and I don't.
Because I think I'm in danger of falling in love with him.

Cora Carmack

#7. It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#8. While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

Haim G. Ginott

#9. He would pray ... for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

Dean Koontz

#10. The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm.

Graham Greene

#11. She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.

Roman Payne

#12. I don't even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that's really douchey. I think of myself as just like a dance commander.

Kesha

#13. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Francois Cavanna

#14. it's crazy, isn't it, the way we always say that children belong to their parents, when it's really the other way around?

Jodi Picoult

#15. I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, giving them an appraising squeeze and admiring nod. A moment later, Miss Georgia returned the gesture ...

Jefferson Bass