Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Marston

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ken Venturi

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

Rebecca Solnit

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

Michael Gambon

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.

Iqbal Quadir

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

Lucy Larcom

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

Wanda Jackson

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

Stevie Nicks

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

Christina Aguilera

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

Elizabeth Perkins

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

Bryan Volpenhein

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.

Eydie Gorme

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

Eduardo Paes

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

Steven Pinker

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Martin O'Malley

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Muddy Waters

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

David Hanson

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

Geddy Lee

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

Tony Visconti

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

Billy Idol

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Frank Sinatra

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

Ann Voskamp

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

Aaliyah

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

Alex Haley

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

Mark Batterson

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

Nancy Gibbs

Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

Queen Latifah

Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

Amanda Burton

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

Isaac Mayer Wise

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Helmut Kohl

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

Valentina Tereshkova

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

David Remnick

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

Paul Bremer

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

Tim Wise

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.

Alice Morse Earle

Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

Sally Schneider

Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor.

Petrarch

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Sarah Parcak

'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.

Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Lenny Bruce

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Herb Caen

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

PewDiePie

Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children around the world, providing everything from school books to food to blankets and shelter.

David McCallum

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Elizabeth Pena

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

Ashley Montagu

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Luther Burbank

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.