Robert W. Service Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
-
Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
-
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
-
You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
-
I have an appetite to always learn.
-
When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
-
I started cooking out of middle school depression.
-
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
-
I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
-
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
-
I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
-
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
-
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
-
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
-
My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.
-
People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
-
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
-
Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
-
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
-
People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.
-
I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
-
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
-
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.
-
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
