Rumer Quotes

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

Love is the only unifier in the world. We've all felt exactly the same way. It'll make you crazy and it'll make you ecstatic and that's true for everyone.

cleverness is a disease.

The stitch of a book is its words.

As you get older you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

Love doesn't care how much money you have.

You have to be the nice one!

Every man worthy of loving you won't make you change yourself.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.

I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

I'm obsessed with smells even more than makeup.

I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.

Love doesn't care who your parents are.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

After being compared to Jay Leno for so long, you don't think of yourself in that way.

The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.