J. M. Roberts Quotes
Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day. I think it's essential that librarians accentuate reading for pleasure and have a solid understanding, respect, even affection for popular fiction.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
-
It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
-
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
-
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
-
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
-
Enjoy every sandwich.
-
I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
-
Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
-
I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
-
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
-
One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'
-
I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
-
I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
-
Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.
-
You realize mortality is everywhere.
-
How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?
-
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.
-
The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.
-
I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing anything except the cathedral. It is an immense task.
-
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.
-
The stakes are nothing less than the future of liberal democracy. We are engaged in a new war of ideas, not communism versus capitalism, but authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government.
-
No animal admires another animal.
-
Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day. I think it's essential that librarians accentuate reading for pleasure and have a solid understanding, respect, even affection for popular fiction.
