Ruined Quotes - Page 3

• It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Anything for Billy". Book by Larry McMurtry, 1988.

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• I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.

  Gerald Stern

  Blessed, Believe, Generations

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, People, Honor

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, Prestwick House Inc

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• There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

  Daniel Handler

  Sad, Book, Reading

  "The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), February 25, 2000.

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greed, Soul, Extravagance

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• The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

  Julian Casablancas

  War, Manhattan, Elements

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• It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.

  Angelo Dundee

  Boxing, Forever, Muhammad

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• Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

  Pete Yorn

  Girl, Stories, Cigarette

  Song: Strange Condition, Album: Musicforthemorningafter

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• I really wish she had a different way of viewing things I think the city that we're from just kinda ruined things

  Drake

  Breakup, Home, Thinking

  Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

  Artie Lange

  Careers, Political, Clay

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?

  Pablo Neruda

  Dark, Night, Rivers

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Pain, Care, Hold Me

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• What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mean, Frustrated, What If

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• You know which guys are doing steroids and which ones aren't. I don't judge anybody. Everybody has their own life and people do what they want. It's like smoking pot. If you experiment with it, it doesn't mean you're the devil, and it doesn't mean you've ruined your body. It just means you tried it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Mean, People, Judging

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

  Rick Yune

  Years, Nuts, Ties

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hitler really ruined that mustache for everybody. It’s really an interesting mustache, but now, no one can wear it.

  Larry David

  Interesting, Mustache

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• I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, Too Much, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Actresses, My Sister, Family Life

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

  John Waters

  Sexy, Real, Ironic

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• It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Coffee, Forever, Shows

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• And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Neutrality, Arms

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.108, Penguin

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• She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Dark, Thinking, Soul

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• I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

  Karen Black

  Jobs, Done, Want

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• We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Cutting, Perfection

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