Robin Williams Quotes

I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

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• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Picture
  • Biography
  • Elizabeth I

• Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Working
  • Obsessed

• My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Blessed

• I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Tales

• I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Record
  • Opinions
  • Anti-people

• I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Teen
  • Normal
  • Size

• Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Home
  • Way
  • Imagine

• He's doing nothing different except not going to work. His life is still the same.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reason

• Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Quiet
  • Fools
  • Except

• All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Done
  • Star
  • Positive

• Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Dad
  • Except

• Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • Control

• It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Playing

• I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
  • Except

• I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Animals
  • Scared
  • Except

• I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • People
  • Reputation
  • Worldwide

• Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Fighter
  • Except

• We've got to win some games to get some confidence.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Confidence
  • Win
  • Games

• My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

  

  Willie Lanier
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Football

• I think it is completely unacceptable for someone like Christopher Meyer to break trust in the way that he has done,

  

  Jack Straw
  • Done
  • Way
  • Trust

• The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Secret
  • Injury
  • Leisure

• I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Except
  • Grudge
  • Tolerant