Robert Of Sherwood Quotes & Sayings

Quentin looked curiously around. "This is a neat room," he said.

"Yes, it is," I replied, directing my compliment toward the distant ceiling. Everyone deserves a few compliments. Even a building. — Seanan McGuire

Bitterness is captivity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens. — John Quincy Adams

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly. — Mark Gatiss

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? — Robert E. Sherwood

All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover. — Robert E. Sherwood

Doctor: 'I am not a hero.
Robin Hood: 'Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may those stories never end. — Mark Gatiss

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. — Robert E. Sherwood

Can I really do this? — Stacy Hawkins Adams

And it is essential that therapists arrive at this knowledge, for the world view of patients is always an essential part of their problems, and a correction in their world view is necessary for their cure. So I say to those I supervise: Find out your patients' religions even if they say they don't have any. — M. Scott Peck

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends. — Robert E. Sherwood

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management. — Red Ruffing

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down. — John Cassavetes

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat. — Robert E. Sherwood

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. — Robert E. Sherwood

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with. — Robert E. Sherwood

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears. — Seneca.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable. — Robert E. Sherwood

There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all there is. — Martin Rees

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. — Robert E. Sherwood

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people. — Paul Guilfoyle

Let's review, shall we? 1. List off your old stories that you've gotten into the habit of thinking and saying. 2. Journal about the false rewards you get from them. 3. Feel into these false rewards, thank them for their help, and decide to let them go. 4. Take each false reward and write a new, powerful story to replace it with. 5. Repeat this new story, or affirmation, over and over and over until it becomes your truth. 6. Behold your awesome new life. — Jen Sincero

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.' — Margaret Cho

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting. — Robert E. Sherwood

We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups, the groups that are operating now in Iraq, and now we have a third tier of threat amongst the Muslims that live in the West and who are inspired to do something against the West by the example of the other two tiers. — Michael Scheuer

I remember when I was younger, there was a well-known writer who used to dart down the back way whenever saw me coming. I suppose he was in love with me and wasn't quite sure of himself. Well, c'est la vie! — Robert E. Sherwood

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts. — Robert E. Sherwood

Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak ... , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens. — Sherwood Anderson

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof. — Holly Black