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 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

• I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Trying

• Wordsworth has gone from us - and ye, Ah, may ye feel his voice as we! He too upon a wintry clime Had fallen - on this iron time Of doubts, disputes, distractions, fears.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Time
  • May

• There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Rest

• I love working with the same people. When I find someone I love and that I like working with, I don't want to stop working with them.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • People
  • Stop

• If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'

  

  Bert Lance
  • Up
  • House
  • Question

• Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me.

  

  Plutarch
  • Leave
  • Ways

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

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • House
  • Place
  • Leave