Rodney Rathbone Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list. — John Berger

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance. — John C. Maxwell

There's a difference, I'm sure you realize, between prevalence and importance."
"I'm sure you realize that I don't even know what prevalence means."
"Kanye West is not more culturally important than - " "Yes he is."
" - than Philip Roth."
"First of all, I've never even heard of that person. Second, Kanye might not be valuable to you, but he's definitely more important to the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Dear God, what's it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring. — Sherlock

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing. — Phyllis Diller

With the millions of listeners to 'Coast to Coast AM,' I get constant feedback from people who are not happy with the current candidates. Maybe I will run for president in 2012. — George Noory

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. — Confucius