All Quotes

Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.
‐‐ Andrew Davies

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
‐‐ Mary Wesley

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.
‐‐ Mark Mothersbaugh

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.
‐‐ Leslie Moonves

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
‐‐ Susumu Tonegawa

Recast your current problems into proactive goals.
‐‐ Suze Orman

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.
‐‐ Graham Joyce

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.
‐‐ Kent Beck

Receiving an economic boost from the digital era is not a luxury - it is essential to ensuring that Europe continues to grow and deliver levels of prosperity that meet the rising expectations of its citizens.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
‐‐ Armstrong Williams

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
‐‐ L. Lionel Kendrick

Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
‐‐ Samantha Stosur

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.
‐‐ Judd Gregg

Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.
‐‐ Michael K. Simpson

Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.
‐‐ J. D. Hayworth

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.
‐‐ Christina Romer

Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate.
‐‐ Lee Haney

Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.
‐‐ Kate Klise

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
‐‐ James Hansen

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.
‐‐ Jourdan Dunn

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
‐‐ Joan Crawford

Recently I heard Sheryl Crow and I loved her, she was terrific.
‐‐ Bobby Sherman

Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
‐‐ Lindsay Duncan

Recently I read that half the world or more has read 'The Lord of The Rings,' but then I found out that something like 75 per cent of the world knows the 'Tintin' books.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
‐‐ Anne Enright

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
‐‐ Boris Spassky

Recently I started to appreciate my body a bit more from before I had kids. But it completely changed, and I have had to work hard at getting it back to where it used to be.... I used to be obsessed with working out.
‐‐ Britney Spears

Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
‐‐ Mackenzie Crook

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.
‐‐ Peter Maxwell Davies

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.
‐‐ Desmond Dekker

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.
‐‐ Christina Ricci

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson

Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.
‐‐ Eric Stoltz