Robert Hailey Quotes

When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good. ~ Robert Dessaix

Stories are Life's instruction manuals. ~ Robert Peate

Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

That's how pathetic things had gotten. I'd actually sat alone in the darkness lusting after a girl like some fucking Robert Pattinson wannabe. At least I smoked instead of sparkled. ~ Joanna Wylde

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed? ~ Robert Breault

For as long as I live and after. ~ Robert Jordan

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind [...] I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this - that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes - pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts - all of them fixed and inviolable., and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forger work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

What people need to see is this openness, not this church that is so built on structure and religious order that you can't be free and worship God and have a good time because we're so caught up in condemnation, 'I can't say this I can't wear this I can't do this because of this perception of what a Christian is and is not'. It's not about that. God says 'come as you are'. ~ Robert Hood

No southerner had been elected President for more than a century, and it was a bitter article of faith among southern politicians that no southerner would be elected President in any foreseeable future; when members of the House of Representatives gave their Speaker, Sam Rayburn, ruler of the House for more than two decades, a limousine as a present, attached to the back of the front seat was a plaque that read 'To Our Beloved Sam Rayburn - Who Would Have Been President If He Had Come From Any Place but the South. ~ Robert A. Caro

How to stop procrastinating starts with believing you can overcome procrastination. ~ Robert Moment

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. ~ Robert South

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect. ~ Robert Genn

You don't grow the economy by growing government. ~ Robert Metcalfe

The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past. ~ Robert G. Picard

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. ~ Robert Burns

Simply put, if you are not doubting yourself or not thinking of other things that you could be doing instead of the task at hand, you're probably not working hard enough ~ Dos Remedios, Robert

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart ~ Robert Hunter

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise. ~ Robert McKee

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat. ~ Robert E. Howard

Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

And the most talented people in every occupation have huge advantages over their ordinary peers. Dean Keith Simonton, who studies greatness and genius, finds that whether it comes to songwriters, composers, scientists, programmers, or filmmakers, the top 10 percent generate as much or more output than the other 90 percent. ~ Robert I. Sutton

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

I used to think meditation served the purpose of clearing my mind of dreams. Good and bad, dreams do affect us in our daily mood. Now I wonder if meditation unlocks them, utilizes the wisdom that has been sent to us by our subconscious. ~ Robert Black

The walls were down, the only thing I could do was rebuild. ~ Robert Dugoni

On this subject it is striking to note how many individuals pursue, outside of their own professions and with a kind of rebellious delight, hobbies that are no more than personalized forms of work. This suggests that one of the hidden desires of humanity, provoked by the inward clamor of unused potentialities, is the dream of work in freedom. ~ Robert Grudin

I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all. ~ Robert Rauschenberg

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show. ~ Robert Conrad

The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady? ~ Robert De Niro

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. ~ Robert Breault

Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen? ~ Robert Jordan