Matt Ruff quotes

Matt Ruff quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.”
-- Matt Ruff

#Numbers Quotes #Mad Quotes #Alive Quotes
“As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.”
-- Matt Ruff

#Son Quotes #Apocalypse Quotes #Ministers Quotes
“I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a father, you do tend to develop an irreverent streak. Kinda goes with the territory. And Dad was as bad as I am, really . .”
-- Matt Ruff

#Dad Quotes #Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.”
“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
“Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from”
“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.”
“And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.”
“Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .”
“If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.”
“Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.”
“Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.”

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