Robin Williams Quotes

Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.

Robin Williams

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• The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Gift

• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• My family and friends treat me as they always have.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Treat

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • You
  • Let Go

• I always try to write the best I can.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Best
  • Try
  • I Can

• The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Man

• I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • World
  • Hurt

• He saw a tree in a backyard, its branches tortured among electric wires and clotheslines, its leaves dry and shriveled before they were fully out. Low in the sky, dark clouds heralded the storm.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Dark
  • Tree
  • Sky

• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• O my child, who wronged you first, and beganFirst the dance of death that you dance so well?Soul for soul: and I think the soul of a manShall answer for yours in hell.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Dance

• Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground-I screamed and instantly ran mad! We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an hour and a quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mad

• I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

  

  Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • Green

• Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

  

  Dinah Sheridan
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Framed

• I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

  

  Jean Craighead George
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

  

  Bill Ayers

• Actors are divas, and we all make too much noise and complain too much, so if you don't do that, it makes you rather exceptional, apparently.

  

  Doug Jones

• My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends

  

  Willie Pep
  • Firsts
  • Boxing
  • Loses

• Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Honor
  • Easier
  • Do Not