Ruth Gordon Quotes

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular? ~ Ruth Gordon

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~ Ruth Gordon

I never got a job I didn't create for myself. ~ Ruth Gordon

Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me:

"It takes courage.
It takes believing in it.
It takes work.
It takes rising above it.
It takes me liking you, and you liking me.
It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right.
Never stop dreaming.
Think about it. ~ Gloria Vanderbilt

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts. ~ Ruth Gordon

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added ... ~ Ruth Gordon

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared. ~ Ruth Gordon

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ~ Ruth Gordon

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means! ~ Ruth Gordon

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them. ~ Ruth Gordon

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. ~ Ruth Gordon

Do people get moral when they don't get ahead? ~ Ruth Gordon

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts. ~ Ruth Gordon

I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles. ~ Jenny Slate

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever. ~ Ruth Gordon

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular. ~ Ruth Gordon

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs. ~ Ruth Gordon

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully. ~ Ruth Gordon

Don't face the facts. ~ Ruth Gordon

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more. ~ Ruth Gordon

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift. ~ Ruth Gordon

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans? ~ Ruth Gordon

You have to have a talent for having talent. ~ Ruth Gordon

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. ~ Ruth Gordon

I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me. ~ Winona Ryder

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that. ~ Ruth Gordon

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. ~ Ruth Gordon

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it! ~ Ruth Gordon

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. ~ Babe Ruth

Three Pillars of Life
1 LOVE: The foundation of life
Every single life that's built on the foundation of love is rock solid but life without love crumbles and drift away. ' And now these three remain: faith,hope and love. But the greatest is love'(1Corinthians13:13).
2 TRUST: The builder of relationships
Every relationship based on trust becomes a close-knit and priceless relationship.
'He will not let your foot slip-
he who watches over you will not slumber(Psalms121:3).
3 LOYALTY:A continuous manner of living
Loyalty stands by you and support you through thick and thin.
But Ruth replied, ' Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God(Ruth 1:16). ~ Euginia Herlihy

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn. ~ Babe Ruth

There is a child-like side to both of them, which makes laughter easy and joy abundant. I envy them that. ~ Ruth Bailey

Having a baby is different from all the ordinary ways of being hurt. it's worth it all. Other pain isn't worth anything, but that is. ~ Ruth Park

Lou Holtz said, 'Don't complain. Eighty percent of the people you complain to don't care and 20 percent are glad you have problems. ~ Jon Gordon

Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. ~ Gordon Brown

If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened. ~ Gordon Korman

The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older, and has no direct authority over you. Lack of context and perspective can cost you months and years
with a bad career choice, an unwise relocation, short-term negotiating posture, and, generally speaking, sophomoric thinking. ~ Bing Gordon

The secret of good writing is telling the truth. ~ Gordon Lish

Elva had said nothing to anyone. She prayed earnestly that she was "all right", explaining over and over again to God what the doctor had said, and how she couldn't properly look after the children she already had. Elva liked to pray in front of a statue similar to the one in her mother's living-room. She was not praying to the statue, but it was a kind of magical doll that kept her thoughts focussed on the Being to whom she prayed. ~ Ruth Park

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ~ Ruth Benedict

I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer. ~ Ruth Rendell

I have two sons. Good sons. They're both businessmen. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Never lose faith in your opportunity to lift those who are in need, to give strength to those who are weak, to give encouragement to those who falter by the way. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile. ~ Lina Wertmuller

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss? ~ Susan Gordon Lydon

Be modest in your wants ... There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Randall kept his eyes glued to the computer screen as she approached. A stranger might have mistaken him for a dedicated Information Sciences professional getting an early start on some important research, but Ruth knew that he was actually scouring eBay for vintage Hasbro action figures ... ~ Tom Perrotta

Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life. ~ Gordon Gee

A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions. ~ Gordon R. Dickson

I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book. ~ Ruth Rendell

We need to move past the idea that a critical evaluation of our country's past (and its present, for that matter) means we are anti-American or unpatriotic. We can be proud of our country and its many positive features and noble ideas while still pointing out where we as a nation have come up short or been plainly wrong. ~ Wayne Gordon

One never knows when inspiration will strike. Inspiration happens in a flash so pay attention. And then Go with it. Immediately. ~ Ruth Yunker

When we carry the thoughts of negativity and self-criticism, we inspire just what we don't want: poor health and an unattractive physical body. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life. ~ Gordon Ramsay

What are the problems associated with Asperger syndrome? People with Asperger syndrome describe the following associated problems and feelings: loneliness; despair; feeling isolated; being misunderstood; not being wanted in a team or group; feeling uninterested in relating to others socially and not really caring about it; feeling alone, even in the company of others, or in a relationship with someone; experiencing a feeling of missing out on the social interactions that most people consider to be so important; ~ Ruth Searle

After much jousting between the Congress and the president over the appointment of more officers, Madison by the end of the year had issued commissions to over eleven hundred individuals, 15 percent of whom immediately declined them, followed by an additional 8 percent who resigned after several months of service. ~ Gordon S. Wood

A few mistakes do not a fiasco make. Professionals throw them off casually but file them away to reinvent as an endearing anecdote in later presentations. Make them part of the performance! Put them behind you and keep going whatever happens. ~ Ruth Bonetti

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star. ~ Ruth Negga

The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies. ~ Bing Gordon

Mountains are personal. They belong to the viewer, the hiker, the skier, the climber ~ Ruth Rudner

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Soaking them in buckets of seawater, to which she'd add a handful of cornmeal and a rusty nail. She'd agitate the water several times a day, and change the water after twelve hours. ~ Ruth Ozeki

Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Through the years I came to realize that some of the most important insights I gained about myself came not from my friends but from my critics who, while playing rough, nevertheless alerted me to blind spots and inadequacies no one else had the courage to tell me about. ~ Gordon MacDonald

He got up. It was too early to go to bed; at least, he was not in the mood for it. He pined for a bit of amusement - something cheap and easy. A seat in the pictures, cigarettes, beer. Useless! No money to pay for any of them. He would read KING LEAR and forget this filthy century. Finally, however, it was THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES that he took from the mantelpiece. SHERLOCK HOLMES was his favorite of all books, because he knew it by heart. The oil in the lamp was giving out and it was getting beastly cold. Gordon dragged the quilt from his bed, wrapped it round his legs and sat down to read. His right elbow on the table, his hands under his coat to keep them warm, he read through "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." The little gas-mantle sighed above, the circular flame of the oil-lamp burned low, a thin bracket of fire, giving out no more heat than a candle. ~ George Orwell

I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ... ~ Ruth Rendell

The dance had begun. ~ Ruth Doan MacDougall

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. ~ Jane Leavy

Gentleman Jim [dog] was cheerful enough, partly because his owner was so well trained... He had alsot trained him to get up when he didn't want to, simply by climbing slowly and painfully on top of him and squeezing all the breath out of him as he slept. On the occasions this didn't work and Gordon seemed to be simply lapsing into a coma, Gentleman Jim would unroll his massive tongue, containing over a half a pint of drool, and dribble it slowly into his ear until Gordon finally awoke... ~ Livi Michael

When we are open, strong and fluid in our body, we are experiencing the best that life has to offer with very little limitation or constraints. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop. ~ G.B. Gordon

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

The temple is concerned with things of immortality. It is a bridge between this life and the next. All of the ordinances that take place in the house of the Lord are expressions of our belief in the immortality of the human soul. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley