Bobby Robson Quotes

He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.

Bobby Robson

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Me

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Tired
  • Athlete

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Play
  • Judge
  • Produce

• New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Small
  • Space

• I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Power
  • Best

• Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Country
  • Yes

• Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • God
  • Progress

• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Death
  • Limit
  • Humiliating

• It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Popular
  • Welfare
  • Anxious

• I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Dream
  • Entrepreneur
  • Chef

• One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Years
  • Information

• Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Death

• Change cannot come from one politician, it has to come from each one of us and not just for today...it's a gradual process. Let's be responsible & work towards it.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Work
  • Today

• As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Trying
  • High
  • Black

• I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Car

• When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Soul
  • Silent
  • Communes

• It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

  

  Larry Wall

• He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.

  

  Bobby Robson