Rober Quotes & Sayings

If with a warm heart and patience we can consider the views of others, and exchange ideas in calm discussion, we will find points of agreement. — Dalai Lama XIV

Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800 years ago. What are we building today that will be here 800 years from now? If something like that emerged from this recession, it would help justify the hardship so many people are currently experiencing. — Denis Hayes

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I? — Richard Greenberg

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes. — Suki Waterhouse

So ended the formative period in [his] life, the single year that set in motion all the clockwork of his future identity. Thinking back on it, I wonder if it isn't the same for all of us. Adulthood is a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in. — Ian Caldwell

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another. — Jocelyn Murray

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter. — Glenn Danzig

That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate
at all costs, unfotunately. — Franz Kafka

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me. — Marat Safin

Choose your favorite spade and dig a small, deep hole, located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra. Bury your cell phone and then find a hobby. — Nick Offerman

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. — George Bernard Shaw

The stubborn refusal to admit a failure due to sin can become a big problem because it makes you spend time rationalizing rather than learning from your mistakes and moving on. — Anonymous

The essential criterion for running a bookstore is less "Do you like books?" than "Do you like people?" Ironically, we find that having unlimited access to more reading material than we ever could have imagined means we read less. Chuck and Dee Robinson own Village Books [...]He once said in an interview with business writer Rober Spector, "If you're opening a bookstore because you love reading books, then become a night watchman because you'll be able to read more books that way." He was right. It's amazing how just the sight of so much intellectual fodder quells the appetite, let alone how little time remains to read once the shelves have been straightened, the day's swap credits assessed and put away, and the sales taxes tallied. — Wendy Welch

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn't want to be without each other. — Patti Smith

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good. — Erik Hassle

We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right. — Joe Jamail