All Quotes

River City Improv set the stage for my career.
‐‐ Marc Evan Jackson

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
‐‐ Zach Galligan

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
‐‐ Craig Mello

RNase H is a specific RNase that will cleave the RNA of a DNA/RNA duplex.
‐‐ Carol W. Greider

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.
‐‐ Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
‐‐ John Hutton

Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
‐‐ Nathaniel Rateliff

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

Roads are not practical in Africa.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.
‐‐ Chris Riddell

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
‐‐ Edna Ferber

'Rob & Big' was a buddy comedy show.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek

Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.
‐‐ Clive Granger

Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

Rob Hardy is such a great director.
‐‐ Jussie Smollett

Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.
‐‐ Robert Wagner

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.
‐‐ Richard Madden

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.
‐‐ Douglas Wood

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
‐‐ Max Eastman

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.
‐‐ Jimmy Reid

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.
‐‐ Joe Sacco

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
‐‐ Famke Janssen

Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.
‐‐ Paul Dano

Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.
‐‐ Cathy Moriarty

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.
‐‐ Michel Hazanavicius

Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan of 'Nightmare' loves Robert and you know so that's a challenge when you've got to step in a big man's shoes like that, so it's scary but it's also exciting.
‐‐ Jackie Earle Haley

Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.
‐‐ Ian McShane

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
‐‐ Brian Eno

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
‐‐ Muddy Waters

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.
‐‐ Terri Windling

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.
‐‐ Jane Birkin

Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.
‐‐ Alan Furst

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.
‐‐ Patti Smith

Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.
‐‐ Patti Smith