Bob Riley Quotes

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Bob Riley

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• I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Doing

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Understanding

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Never
  • Story
  • Dreams

• I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Man
  • Stop

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Eyes
  • Learning
  • Forget

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Life
  • Own
  • Privacy

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Grow

• A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • Man
  • Special

• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Important
  • Very
  • Tone

• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Know
  • Slow

• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Broken
  • Speaking
  • One Thing

• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  

  Mario Andretti

• Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

  

  Benedict Samuel
  • Good
  • Perspective

• I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: territorial - our borders; monetary and budgetary; economic; and legislative. Either the European Union says yes to me, or they would say no, and I would say to the French, there is no only other solution but to leave the E.U.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People

• I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Live
  • Done
  • Happy

• Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Rest
  • Destructive

• No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Life
  • School
  • Future