Bob Riley Quotes

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

Bob Riley

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• Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Guy

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Work
  • Present

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Friend
  • President
  • Boss

• Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • War
  • Military

• What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Expectation

• (on 'Someday My Prince Will Come' the Ashley Tisdale pop song) 'Just because your prince hasn't come doesn't mean you're not a princess.'

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Song
  • Prince
  • Princess

• I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

  

  Lydia Lunch

• I think that people can have their hand in as many different things as they want. You've just got to put your mind to it and just do it.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • People
  • Different
  • Mind

• When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. I'd never even seen a script and couldn't believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Believe
  • Door

• I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Blue

• I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Different
  • Live
  • Country

• When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.

  

  Binod Chaudhary
  • People
  • Family
  • Business

• I don't think a lot of people would spot the video-game influences in '10 Cloverfield Lane.' People think it's just a Hitchcockian mystery. And I was heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, for sure. But for a generation prior to mine, that would be the sole influence. Since I grew up playing video games, I drew so much inspiration from that world.

  

  Dan Trachtenberg
  • Inspiration
  • Generation
  • Videogame

• Competition in our health system is a powerful force of cost-containment.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Health
  • Powerful
  • Competition

• I never turned down anything but 'Gilligan's Island.'

  

  Jerry Van Dyke

• 'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Know
  • Written

• When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.

  

  Tablo
  • Stop
  • Wish
  • Distance

• He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • She

• That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Country
  • Death
  • Song

• There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Value
  • Laws
  • Humorous

• Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Perseverance