Bob Goff Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's those damn critics again.
-
You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
-
You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
-
I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
-
I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
-
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
-
I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
-
Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
-
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
-
I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
-
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
-
I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
-
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
-
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
-
I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
-
History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
-
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
-
She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
-
They know my story, but I don't know theirs. That is why I keep doing it.
-
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
-
You can't hate anybody till you hate yourself and you can't love anybody till you love yourself.
-
There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
-
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
