Wissner Robert Quotes

The working process is ideally freeing my mind. ~ Robert Rauschenberg

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. ~ Robert Staughton Lynd

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart ... no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

I support the right of the individual, the right of the most individuals to get what they want. That is all majority rule is: support for the highest number of individuals to get their way. Really, in choosing to honor the wishes of the highest number of individuals, I support individual rights far more than those who oppose majority rule do. ~ Robert Peate

How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them? ~ Robert Anton Wilson

a poem written for someone special to me, but a woman who I can't be with all the time due to where we are in life right now. Through the distance love can still survive, it just takes a little hard work and stubbornness at time. ~ Robert Zimmermann

But one of the great tragedies of life is that you cannot force people to read what they ought, as good as it might be for them.
- Roland Gardner
"Query ~ Robert Boyczuk

the average number of legs in any human population is slightly less than two. So most people actually do have "more legs than average. ~ Robert H. Frank

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. ~ Robert Jordan

There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did. ~ Robert D. Putnam

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Bill Read, an East London speaker who kept a workmen's eating house, used to bellow that vegetarianism was a capitalist plot to lower labour costs by making the working-class feed on grass. ~ Robert Barltrop

I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his 'general relativity', and its claim that the answer to the question 'What is real?" begins with the question 'Where are you standing? ~ Robert Charles Wilson

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. ~ Robert Musil

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening. ~ Robert Fripp

Whatever team you go to, you want to have guys who help you be successful there. ~ Robert Griffin III

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. ~ Robert Gottlieb

and all I have to remark is, damn the pies! ~ Robert L. Mack

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. ~ Robert C. Solomon

Coca-Cola should always be within an arm's reach of desire. ~ Robert W. Woodruff

The one thing that remains permanently behind the times, especially because it prides itself on its steadfastness, is the human heart, most of all that of the conscientious man. The mind is never so hard, dry, and twisted as when it has a slight chronic heart condition. ~ Robert Musil

Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power. ~ Robert Greene

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre. ~ David Gemmell

If you were my girlfriend I would give you a hundred lightning bugs in a green glass jar, so you could always see your way. I would give you a meadow full of wildflowers, where no two blooms would ever be alike. I would give you my bicycle, with its golden eye to protect you. I would write a story for you, and make you a princess who lived in a white marble castle. If you would only like me, I would give you magic. If you would only like me. ~ Robert McCammon

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. ~ Robert Breault

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion. ~ Robert Caro

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

It is in games that many men discover their paradise. ~ Robert Wilson Lynd

Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that - in many realms, not just sex - we're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. ~ Robert Wright

Why are you out here risking your life? Is Justice such an odd thing to desire? Justice is a luxury. No said Gregor. It is not. It is a right. And it is a right that has long been denied. He stared out at the city...I would shed every drop of blood in my body for such a thing. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world. ~ Robert Novak