All Quotes

'Roots' did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.
‐‐ David L. Wolper

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
‐‐ Alex Haley

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man.
‐‐ Gwendoline Christie

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
‐‐ Bob Filner

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.
‐‐ John Shimkus

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
‐‐ John Shimkus

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
‐‐ Marc Morial

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
‐‐ Jim Costa

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.
‐‐ Linda Lavin

Roseanne was a huge groundbreaking comedian. Margaret Cho. Ellen DeGeneres, and then on 'Saturday Night Live,' the era of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler sort of helped to bring in an awareness of a new generation of women comedians, often women who were feminist in their comedy, who were unafraid - and this came from the genre of show that was emerging.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

Roseanne was incredible to work with. She was extremely bright.
‐‐ Sarah Chalke

Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

'Rosemary's Baby' is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening. I'm actually going to work on a movie in February, called 'Mercy,' from Jason Blum, who produced the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, and there is a similar theme to 'Rosemary's Baby' in the movie.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.
‐‐ Margaret Whiting

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.
‐‐ Hayley Mills

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
‐‐ Oscar Levant

Rosewood has always been one of my favourite scents, as has the pink grapefruit and pepper we've also put in Homme.
‐‐ David Beckham

Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is just perfect-looking. Whether she's walking down the street, she looks so regal and elegant all the time, and I love that.
‐‐ Blake Lively

Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.
‐‐ Geena Davis

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
‐‐ Grace Paley

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
‐‐ Douglas Sirk

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.
‐‐ John Sculley

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.
‐‐ Rich Little

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
‐‐ Ron D. Burton

Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses may have to give several, as diarrhoea makes it difficult for a child to retain anything.
‐‐ Rose George

Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.
‐‐ Ann Nocenti

Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed.
‐‐ Scott Adams

Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

Rottweilers are victims of a stereotype. They're not that bad.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
‐‐ Thomas Browne

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

Roughly nine of every 10 Syrian war dead since 2011 are on the butcher's bill accumulated by Assad and his friends in Iran's Quds Force, the Iran-allied Hezbollah, and the Russian air force.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
‐‐ Serge Lang

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.
‐‐ Ronald Coase

Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.
‐‐ Georgia May Jagger

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.
‐‐ George Thorogood

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
‐‐ Alexander John Ellis

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
‐‐ John Dryden

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
‐‐ Jose Rizal