Ruth Ozeki quote: "When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder."

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o...
RUTH OZEKI

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
RUTH OZEKI

I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look ...
RUTH OZEKI

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about wh...
RUTH OZEKI

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' ...
RUTH OZEKI

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - th...
RUTH OZEKI

The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make...
RUTH OZEKI

On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough to see...
RUTH OZEKI

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I ...
RUTH OZEKI

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blur...
RUTH OZEKI

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it h...
RUTH OZEKI

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
RUTH OZEKI

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ...
RUTH OZEKI

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
RUTH OZEKI

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ...
RUTH OZEKI

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid,...
RUTH OZEKI

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because...
RUTH OZEKI

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and o...
RUTH OZEKI

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from ...
RUTH OZEKI

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to wr...
RUTH OZEKI

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in fil...
RUTH OZEKI

I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural tr...
RUTH OZEKI

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are c...
RUTH OZEKI

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishi...
RUTH OZEKI

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.
RUTH OZEKI

Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes."
"Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. ...
RUTH OZEKI

In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most i...
RUTH OZEKI

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.
RUTH OZEKI

My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.
RUTH OZEKI

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantia...
RUTH OZEKI

Maybe all teenagers feel like they don't fit in. I never felt like a cool kid. I remember being ...
RUTH OZEKI

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The har...
BABE RUTH

I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
BABE RUTH

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ...
RUTH HANDLER

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
RUTH BENEDICT

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa...
RUTH BENEDICT

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
RUTH BEECHICK

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre...
RUTH STOUT

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ...
RUTH BENEDICT

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the...
RUTH HUBBARD

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH

Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
RUTH STOUT

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ...
RUTH HUBBARD

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up
BABE RUTH

Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way th...
RUTH REICHL

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know abo...
RUTH REICHL

Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
BABE RUTH

Paris ain't much of a town.
BABE RUTH

My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining...
RUTH REICHL

I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford...
RUTH RENDELL

Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, co...
RUTH GLICK

Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.
RUTH WILSON

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
RUTH HANDLER

If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.
RUTH REICHL

[Publishers Weekly said] 13 Steps Down ... all her trademark virtues: vivid characters, a plot addic...
RUTH RENDELL

One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of...
RUTH WARE

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly ...
RUTH RENDELL

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.
RUTH WESTHEIMER

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.
RUTH ELLIS

To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiou...
RUTH HARRIS

We're now role models, so if we see a piece of garbage, we'd better pick it up.
RUTH MILLER

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I nev...
RUTH NEGGA

'Betrayed' starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from...
RUTH GLICK

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humili...
RUTH RENDELL

Oh, I gave some to my neighbor next door.
RUTH MAHL

If the relationship is not a good one, then she’s going to use menopause as a reason for saying, �...
RUTH WESTHEIMER

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.
RUTH WESTHEIMER

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH

If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out ...
RUTH CARLISLE

And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buc...
CHARLES RUTH

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, to...
RUTH WESTHEIMER

Feast of Thomas the Apostle If God doesn't bring judgment on America soon, He will have to apolo...
RUTH GRAHAM

She certainly wasn't comfortable today.
RUTH AITKEN

We feel it is important over the length of the tournament that we use all 12 players and we have ful...
RUTH AITKEN

I have learned more than they have, because I had to study so hard. And I think, it's peace that you...
RUTH ADKINS

It really goes back to when we abandoned the draft,
RUTH ADAMS

It's not a philosophy. It's religion. There are no television ads for our product during those hours...
RUTH GARREN

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
RUTH BENEDICT

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
RUTH GORDON

Courage is like a muscle strenghthened by its use.
RUTH GORDON

That grocery store, that was something. You would be just tickled to go in there and pick out any ca...
RUTH JOHNSON

The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w...
RUTH LIGGETT

I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal...
RUTH REICHL

M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end ...
RUTH REICHL

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL

I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL

To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce...
RUTH BERNHARD

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something calle...
RUTH REICHL

I am absolutely clear that the scandal of junk food served every day in school canteens must end. So...
RUTH KELLY

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings...
RUTH B

It's a very ambitious plan and a very good plan for the town. We need senior housing in town, and th...
RUTH BIRTZ

You can still find buttons for 5 cents, but a single button can go into the hundreds, even thousands...
RUTH MEYERS

I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But ...
RUTH B

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I ...
RUTH RENDELL

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.&...
RUTH GLICK

We get more complaints now because of the cost. Insurance companies are looking at limiting benefits...
RUTH CASE

People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone ...
RUTH RENDELL

She's a good setter. And we have more than one weapon, so she has a variety of hitters to go to. Tha...
RUTH HAYDEN

I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B

Honour looked so much like a child herself, confined to bed, a white nightgown, like one of those ma...
RUTH AHMED

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.
RUTH REICHL

Most southeastern states are conservative.
CHARLES RUTH

Growing up in Silicon Valley, during my time at Morgan Stanley and as a member of Stanford's Boa...
RUTH PORAT

I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their dai...
RUTH PORAT

We may end up doing that this year just out of curiosity.
DAWN RUTH

(Temecula) wasn't hitting their shots tonight, but you don't have to shoot great if you're getting s...
KURT RUTH

Difficulty? It's impossible. Are they afraid the tourists will leave if they know they are being spr...
RUTH FISHER

Develop a simple plan to fully identify expenses and match to available savings, income, scholarship...
RUTH LYTTON

Fires can do anything. It's still a ways away from Palm Springs at this point. What I think is more ...
RUTH WINSTROM

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
RUTH GRAHAM

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
RUTH ROSS

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT

When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt.
RUTH ALMOG

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'l...
RUTH REICHL

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
RUTH BENEDICT

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
RUTH BROWN

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH

It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much...
RUTH PORAT

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
RUTH REICHL

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
RUTH HANDLER

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminish...
RUTH REICHL

Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I...
RUTH REICHL

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower...
RUTH REICHL

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that&#...
BABE RUTH

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe...
RUTH RENDELL

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
RUTH ROSS

Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley ...
RUTH REICHL

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
RUTH RENDELL

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for ...
RUTH REICHL

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one...
RUTH PARK

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we'...
RUTH REICHL

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
RUTH BROWN

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH

An orgasm is just a reflex, like a sneeze
RUTH WESTHEIMER

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio...
RUTH ROSS

If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag y...
RUTH GLICK

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of peo...
RUTH HARRISON

He thinks that he’s not attracted to her because he doesn’t know that there’s no psychogenic e...
RUTH WESTHEIMER

'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals wi...
RUTH REICHL

Anthony is the anti-aesthete,
RUTH REICHL

The general public may not realize these gifted service member-musicians work full time at this. All...
RUTH EZELL

My mother had multiple sclerosis.
RUTH RENDELL

Jess is an exciting young shooter who shows great maturity in her game.
RUTH AITKEN

Tommy and I put on a radio play to entertain everyone while they unpacked their cookies. It was abou...
RUTH REICHL

Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about l...
RUTH WESTHEIMER

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
RUTH WESTON

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
RUTH GENDLER

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

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
BABE RUTH

The cook doesn't want to be locked away in the kitchen anymore. He or she wants to be around the gue...
RUTH REICHL

It's just been good for making them think how they can keep learning and we can keep challenging the...
RUTH AITKEN

It has been a nice surprise for people to see the PSP on the shelves. We have still got free stock a...
RUTH ADAMS

I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with ...
RUTH PORAT

If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to...
RUTH REICHL

I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid fo...
RUTH REICHL

It had to stop - we were carrying about a million deer in South Carolina, and we don't need one mill...
CHARLES RUTH

I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.
RUTH REICHL

Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau?
RUTH SAUNDERS

I would take my kitchen apart. I would completely clean the stove and refrigerator, and take the dis...
RUTH GLAZIER

You know the amazing thing? I love Henry Aaron . I think he's a wonderful guy and a great credit for...
BABE RUTH

I can't have 3, ... so I just put a 1 in front of it. Also, I was a big Dan Marino fan growing up an...
BABE RUTH

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written abo...
BABE RUTH

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd ...
BABE RUTH

I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all...
RUTH GLICK

I think we've done a lot better than expected against some of these teams, ... These are teams that ...
BABE RUTH

Let me show you how it's done ... Loser!
BABE RUTH

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
BABE RUTH

We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe...
RUTH HUBBARD

I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit.
CHARLES RUTH

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ...
RUTH RENDELL

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.
RUTH DRAPER

There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stu...
RUTH BROWN

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core...
RUTH GLICK

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my d...
RUTH WILSON

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own t...
RUTH REICHL

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in...
RUTH RENDELL

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
BABE RUTH

I know you're a chocolate lover. I can always tell. I'm about to temper the chocolate. I have my own...
RUTH REICHL

My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.
RUTH B

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS

I always say yes to everything because I always feel that whatever comes my way, life meant for me.
RUTH BERNHARD

(The Titans) changed some shots, and at times, we were looking for someone to come over. As an offen...
KURT RUTH

Direct selling offers huge potential for sales as a small business owner or entrepreneur. BusinessTV...
RUTH KING

you know, your mother is such a great cook.
RUTH REICHL

It takes a while to get in a rhythm, but we kept breaking them down, breaking them down and fortunat...
RUTH VOSTAL

I've been in the business 25 years and I have never signed a piece of paper in a room that night wit...
RUTH VITALE

I see people in tears, not wanting to give up their dog but not knowing what to do anymore.
RUTH MARQUARDT

Unless there is serious reform there, the euro won't regain investor confidence.
RUTH LEA

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
BABE RUTH

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
BABE RUTH

Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
RUTH NEGGA

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

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When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

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