Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bhagat Singh

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

Kwame Nkrumah

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kurt Loder

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in.

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Solon

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Benjamin Orr

Rick is the leader and I don't have a problem with that.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Jennie Finch

Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'

John Tesh

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

Thomas H. Cook

Risk will always be a part of life. It's how we recognize this and deal with it that matters.

Christopher McDonald

Robert Redford was an absolute blast to work with - a very smart, very charismatic man.

Patricia Highsmith

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

Colin Angle

Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

Rodney Brooks

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

Sally Ride

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

John Frusciante

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

Chuck Berry

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Loretta Napoleoni

Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy.

E. F. Benson

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

Donny Osmond

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Yeardley Smith

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

Frank Dane

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

Paolo Sorrentino

Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

Anatole Broyard

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Bill Jenkins

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

Joe Theismann

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Uday Kiran

Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.

Peter Snell

Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

Lolo Jones

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

Ian Frazier

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

Ayad Allawi

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.

Samora Machel

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

J. C. Ryle

Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world, puts a new principle in his heart and makes him practically godly in life.

Victor Borge

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Chris Van Allsburg

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

Aubrey Plaza

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

Yukiya Amano

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

Dawn Powell

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Linus Pauling

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Muddy Waters

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

Bobby Bragan

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

Benjamin Rush

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Edmond Halley

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

Shawn Amos

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

David Hume

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Gary Paulsen

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Richard Codey

School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food.

Warren Weaver

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.