James Anthony Robinson (J-Ro) Quotes

What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

James Anthony Robinson

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I don't miss acting at all.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Acting
  • Miss

• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Thanks
  • Number
  • Honey

• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
  • Fill

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Long
  • Home

• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Teacher
  • Public
  • Office

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friend

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
  • Broken

• It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Dying
  • Talking

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Believe

• When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'

  

  Byron Howard
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Guitar
  • Radio
  • Hip Hop

• All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

  

  James Anthony Robinson
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Brain