J. M. Roberts Quotes

I wasn't showing him a house, I was showing him a place to leave me.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Smile
  • Warm

• Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Power
  • Future
  • Miracle

• Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • You
  • Feel
  • Act

• My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Artist
  • Separate

• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Friends
  • Environment
  • Leadership

• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Think
  • Me
  • Angry

• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Corrupt

• Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Powerful
  • Mystery
  • Emotions

• I was a normal American nerd.

  

  Jack Herer
  • American
  • Normal
  • Nerd

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Light
  • Me

• You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • City
  • Best
  • Animal

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Worried

• My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

  

  Carmen Busquets
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• I wasn't showing him a house, I was showing him a place to leave me.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • House
  • Place
  • Leave