In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

“Congratulations, then. You wanted to be ruined? Well, you did yourself one better because you wrecked me, too, Sunshine. Now we’re both worth shit.”

— Katja Millay

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

— Ellen Gilchrist

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

— Hermann Hesse

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

— Stephen Baxter

Once upon a time, there was a boy and a girl who both loved each other. Then a slut came along and ruined everything.…

— Anonymous

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a…

— Thomas de Quincey

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was…

— Quentin Tarantino

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

— Robert Toombs

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our…

— Julia McNair Wright

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

Nobody wants to see someone's life ruined over a small-time lapse in judgment.

— Charlie Baker

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

— Bob Hope

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have…

— Paul Bley

“I don't drink since it ruined the best thing I ever had.”

— Kimberly Lauren

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany