Joseph Roux Quotes

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

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• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Father
  • Trust
  • Husband

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Science
  • Always
  • Spiritual

• Word of mouth is everything.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Everything
  • Word
  • Mouth

• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • God

• I think to describe 'The Gates' as a genre show is tricky because when you think of what's a vampire show or what's a supernatural kind of thing, I think other shows... maybe focus on that element probably slightly more than our show does.

  

  Chandra West
  • Focus
  • Vampire
  • Supernatural

• I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Good
  • Different
  • Focus

• There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • Live
  • Free
  • Fear

• I'm pretty much a goodie two-shoes.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Pretty
  • Shoes

• I just know that all my fans who are with me and going along for the ride, that's what means the most to me.

  

  McKayla Maroney

• If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Band

• I was a dogged reporter.

  

  Joanna Coles

• Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

  

  John Barton
  • Curiosity
  • Empathy

• 'But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?' 'Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of fold as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.'

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Lion

• I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • High
  • Weird
  • Body

• Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Movie
  • Dad
  • Son

• I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Fear

• A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Philosophy
  • Social

• America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • Life
  • Important
  • Home

• By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Law

• It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Thoughts
  • Opinions

• A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

  

  Joseph Roux
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