Quotes About Ruth

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.

I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption. His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.

Here's your suitcase, Sara," Willis announced when he entered the room. He looked over at Mary Ruth.

that Ruth's power as a player was gone. He was thirty-nine years old and his hard living had caught up with him.

But our writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - it was very much in her mind. After we had done 'A Room With a View' and 'Maurice,' she urged us to think about 'Howards End' as another candidate for adaptation.

Ask, and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

She thought of the story of Ruth in the Bible: "Whither thou goest, I will go." Their sons would be taught to treat women as equals, and their daughters would grow up independent and strong-willed. Perhaps they would eventually settle in a town house in Berlin, so that their children could go to good German schools. At

RUTH: If you take the glass…I'll take you.

Finally, Rahab is a Canaanite, Ruth is a Moabite, and Uriah, Bathsheba's first husband, is a Hittite; and all show deep loyalty to Israel and Israel's God.

Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair. What are you doing here? she asked Perry. Stovepipe Town made a mistake. Oh, looking for a round square, said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.

Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

Ruth felt beneath the seat for a flashlight. "What's this?" she asked, pulling out a paperback book in a Ziploc plastic bag. She held it up. "It's a dictionary, Helma. You carry a DICTIONARY in your car?" "It's my car dictionary," Helma told her.

RUTH No—I'm just sleepy as the devil. What kind of eggs you want? WALTER Not scrambled. (RUTH starts to scramble eggs)

Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen," he said, without looking up. "I

I have always despised the capitalist greed and imperialist hubris that have motivated it.

every bit of flying dust. He began to take them down.

At nearly two months,the idea of it as news was fading in the hearts of all but my family-and Ruth

Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose to tell it, even to one person at a time.

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

Mary felt the cause of the conflict was Chatterton's hatred of her role, that of a woman "trying to hang on to her youth—which is exactly what Ruth herself was doing.

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

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