Jason Robards Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
-
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
-
Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
-
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
-
While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
-
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
-
I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
-
When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
-
It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
-
One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
-
Dying is not a crime.
-
If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others.
-
History is the unfolding of miscalculations.
-
It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
-
You can't argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it's two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic. I wasn't crazy about the movie. But you know what? I'm gonna shut up, because the people have spoken. End of story!
-
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
-
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
-
No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.
-
Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'
-
During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
-
The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'
-
I got hooked on 'All Things Considered.'
