Hal Roach Quotes

The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

Hal Roach

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Memories

• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Great
  • Government

• I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Sweet

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Suffering
  • Anxiety

• Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Terrorism
  • Tongue
  • Lens

• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Humor

• I wanted to be a world champion.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • World
  • Wanted
  • Champion

• I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Very
  • Involved
  • Executives

• Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Used
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • May
  • Man

• If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Night
  • Technology

• I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Done
  • Like
  • Christmas

• The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Question
  • Psychology
  • Pure

• The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Guy
  • Myself
  • Best

• I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Want
  • Man
  • Relationship

• Prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

  

  Bette Lord
  • Fate
  • Confirm
  • Prophecies

• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Hand

• One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Times
  • Number
  • Proportional