Rut Quotes

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. (Ellen Glasgow)
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. View quote
John Dewey
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. View quote
Edith Wharton
You won't skid if you stay in a rut. View quote
Kin Hubbard
I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut. View quote
Tom Perrotta
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out. View quote
Vance Havner
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. View quote
Theodor Herzl
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. View quote
Christine Lavin
If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it. (Levon Helm)
The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me. View quote
Peter Cetera
But the fast lane too gets to be a rut. View quote
John Updike
We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place. View quote
Robert Heilbroner
A man can be aroused to anger as easily as he is aroused to rut. The two emotions are closely linked. Anger and lust. So the warrior is aroused in battle and fights to dominate. View quote
David Gemmell
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production. View quote
Laurie Anderson
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!... The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. If a man feels kindly and obliging, his neighbors will feel that way, too, before long. But if he scolds and scowls and criticizes - his neighbors will return scowl for scowl, and add interest!... When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good - you will get that.... Tell your son Tom you KNOW he'll be glad to fill that woodbox - then watch him start, alert and interested! View quote
Eleanor H. Porter
They would fail. We would always fail. We weren't built to do anything but fail. We had the wrong kind of motives and we couldn't change them. We had a built-in short-sightedness and an inherent selfishness and a self-concern that made it impossible to step out of the little human rut we traveled. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
Every now and then it's nice to stop and just look over what you've been writing and the way you've been writing it and sort of reassess it, and see if you've fallen into bad habits or there's something you'd like to get better at. One way of reexamining your own work is to work with somebody else. It's a learning experience. I don't want to get into a rut. View quote
Roger Zelazny
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. View quote
Arnold Bennett
Criticism, like so many other things, keeps to what has been said before and does not get out of the rut. This business of the 'Beautiful' some see it in curved lines, some in straight lines, but all persist in seeing it as a matter of line. I am now looking out of my window and I can see the most lovely countryside; lines just do not come into my head: the lark is singing, the river sparkles with a thousand diamonds, the leaves are whispering; where, I should like to know, are the lines that produce delicious impressions like these? They refuse to see proportion or harmony except between two lines: all else they regard as chaos, and the dividers alone are judge. (Eugène Delacroix)
Constable, an admirable man, is one of England's glories. I have already told you about him and about the impression he had made on me when I was making 'The massacre at Chios'. He and Turner were real reformers. They broke out of the rut of traditional landscape painting. Our School [ French Romanticism ], which today abounds in men of talent in this field, profited greatly by their example. Géricault [first leader of French Romanticism, followed by Delacroix after his early death] came back in a daze from seeing one of the great landscapes Constable sent us. View quote
Eugène Delacroix
Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit. Where he can fall on his slender prey roaring as loud as he feels like, and guzzle her blood with open joy. Eh? Where he can just wallow and rut and let himself go in a softness, a receptive darkness of limbs, of hair as woolly as the hair on his own forbidden genitals. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. View quote
Martin Scorsese
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut. View quote
Josh Lucas