Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Mumford

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Bronson Pinchot

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Gregory Stock

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

Frank Langella

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Ben Hogan

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Wyndham Lewis

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Ray Comfort

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

Beau Willimon

Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.

Adrian Edmondson

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

Francis Parkman

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

Blanche Lincoln

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Juliette Gordon Low

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

E. F. Benson

Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

Cat Cora

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

Martina Hingis

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

Magnus Carlsen

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

John Avlon

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Peter Arnett

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

Ross Kemp

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Clive Granger

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

Howard Nemerov

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.

Wesley Morris

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.

Kay Robertson

Robertsons love Sundays! The most important thing we do is gather together with our church family for worship, teaching, and fellowship. After church, we like to have a nice lunch of roast, vegetables, and definitely rolls or biscuits. And I love catching a nap when I can.

Karel Capek

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Bill Budge

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

Charlie Watts

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

Tab Hunter

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

Meat Loaf

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

Narada Michael Walden

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

Debbie Macomber

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

Karl Rove

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

Bob Filner

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.

Dylan McDermott

'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.

Ashley Judd

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

Miroslav Volf

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

Charles Hodge

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

Nate Ruess

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

Sergey Galitsky

Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.

Anwar Sadat

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Tatum O'Neal

Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

Gary Neville

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

Christy Turlington

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

Todd Young

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

David Crosby

Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

A. Philip Randolph

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

Albrecht Durer

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Cameron Russell

Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

Spencer Abraham

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Neil Postman

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.