Robert Shearman Quotes & Sayings

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. — William Blake

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. — O. Henry

Suspicion is a virtue as long its object is the preservation of public good — Patrick Henry

When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands. — Jose Andres

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me. — Margaret Mahy

What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on. — Slavoj Zizek

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. — Shawn Colvin

I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning. — Joanna Noelle Levesque

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up. — George Clooney

Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course — Jacques-Yves Cousteau