Mark Roberts Quotes

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

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• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Individuals

• I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Scene
  • Whole
  • Showbiz

• When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Time
  • Period

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Resilience

• If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Work
  • God
  • Strong

• I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Feminist
  • Lady
  • Rather

• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Long
  • Play
  • Start

• The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Taken
  • Development
  • Youth

• We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • Country
  • History

• I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Action
  • February

• If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Fun

• A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• The prophets... interpreted past history, shaped present history, and foretold future history on the basis of the conviction that God rules with righteousness in the affairs of nations, and that only what is just, and not what is expedient and profitable, shall endure.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • God
  • History
  • Future

• Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Control
  • Moral

• It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,That all sin is divided into two parts.One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important And it is what you are doing when you are doing something you oughtn't...

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up
  • Good
  • Manipulation

• Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Ambition

• It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Ends

• I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every 'Dreams From My Father' - Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing - there were a dozen cautious, formulaic vanity projects by politicians.

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Father
  • Presidential

• My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Family
  • She
  • History

• Really, when you look at it, you're not battling the chemo, you're battling yourself the whole time. It was me versus me. There were many times where I didn't know if I would wake up tomorrow. I would just be up, scared to go to sleep.

  

  Eric Berry
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sleep

• Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

  

  James C. Maxwell
  • May
  • Small
  • Taken

• When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

  

  Mark Roberts