All Quotes

A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

A robust democracy requires active participation.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
‐‐ Nick Cave

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.
‐‐ Paul Westerberg

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
‐‐ Tove Lo

'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.
‐‐ Tionne Watkins

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
‐‐ Oliver Herford

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.
‐‐ Kristin Hannah

A romance novel is more than just a story in which two people fall in love. It's a very specific form of genre fiction. Not every story with a horse and a ranch in it is a Western; not every story with a murder in it is a mystery; and not every book that includes a love story can be classified as a romance novel.
‐‐ Leigh Michaels

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.
‐‐ Judith McNaught

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.
‐‐ Sebastian Faulks

A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.
‐‐ Charlotte Lamb

A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.
‐‐ John Updike

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
‐‐ Clive Owen

A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.
‐‐ Paula Malcomson

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
‐‐ Joshua Reynolds

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.
‐‐ Paul Lynde

A room is not a room without natural light.
‐‐ Louis Kahn

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
‐‐ Clive Bell

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.
‐‐ Curtis Sliwa

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
‐‐ Mark Twain

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
‐‐ Michael Foot

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.
‐‐ Adam Sadowsky

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
‐‐ Margaret Cavendish

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
‐‐ Charlotte Bronte

A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
‐‐ Dwight L. Moody

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.
‐‐ Phil Crosby

A ruler isn't always straight.
‐‐ Robert Half

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
‐‐ Han Fei

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
‐‐ Emil Zatopek

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
‐‐ David Pogue

A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
‐‐ Jay Parini