J. M. Roberts Quotes

He had a slender nose. He had very slim features.

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• My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Thought
  • Childhood
  • Fact

• Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry

• I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Path

• Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Hand

• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Problem
  • Depression
  • Saturday

• One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Time
  • Nervous
  • Admit

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Tolerance
  • Ethics
  • Beliefs

• That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Think

• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Soul

• I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Faith
  • Control
  • Fate

• I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Help

• Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

  

  Jim Beaver
  • People
  • Drama
  • Path

• 'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

  

  Doug Liman
  • Identity

• Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

  

  Jennifer Granholm

• I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • World

• New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Passion
  • Story
  • Organize

• I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

  

  Derek Luke
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Way
  • Best
  • Give

• It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

  

  Kate Horsley
  • Dangerous
  • Weak
  • Pity

• He had a slender nose. He had very slim features.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Nose
  • Features
  • Slim