Robert Ruark Quotes
1915–1965 United States
Robert Ruark (December 29, 1915 – July 1, 1965) was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter.
- United States
- Non-fiction authors
- Novelists
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Another dissatisfied mortal writes: "I am reminded of a TV set that a company wanted me to try, free of charge, for a couple of months; the case was made of extruded white plastic, ugly as a Tasmanian devil, with a plastic white clock stuck on it like a second eye."
Nothing Works and Nobody Cares (1965)
I was sitting with a young lady one night, with the television turned up to drown out the screams of the rape victims, when a chap who was hanging a picture next door broke completely through the wall! And this, friends, in the high-rent district.
Nothing Works and Nobody Cares (1965)
This is a book about Africa in which I have tried to avoid most of the foolishness, personal heroism, and general exaggeration which usually attend works of this sort. It is a book important only to the writer and has no sociological significance whatsoever.
Horn of the Hunter (1953)
Only choice between the brand-spankers and the reconverts is to live in the suburbs, and that means trains. Oy vay.
Trains. The trouble with train people is that they think they are still living in an early Harriman era. They think they are still in the railroad business.
Nothing Works and Nobody Cares (1965)
I bear scars on wrist and soul from being chewed by а leopard who would have been dead if my gun's ammunition had fulfilled its basic purpose. But we picked the buckshot out of the cat's hide like currants from a bun. I choked the leopard to death with the shotgun, which doesn't work anymore.
Nothing Works and Nobody Cares (1965)
[T]he cold consommé was hot and half-melted, the liver came straight out of a synthetic-testing lab, and the whipped cream on the strawberry shortcake was purest Rise. The strawberries were made of genuine artificial coloring.
Nothing Works and Nobody Cares (1965)