Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Macaulay

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Rose Macaulay

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

Rose McGowan

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

Rose McGowan

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

Rose McGowan

I'm a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I'll think of unique ways to get back at you. I'm more creative than your average bear.

Rose McGowan

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

Ronald Steel

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Ronan Farrow

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

Ronald Ross

Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained very few individuals, I succeeded in finding in two of them certain remarkable and suspicious cells containing pigment identical in appearance to that of the parasite of malaria. As these cells appear to me to be very worthy of attention ... I think it would be advisable to place on record a brief description both of the cells and of the mosquitos.

Ronda Rousey

I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

Ronda Rousey

I grew up with a lot of body image issues - not just about my weight, but I would always see these perfect orb, domed boobs on television, and think, "Mine don't look like that." I thought there was something wrong with me.

Ronda Rousey

Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a tan, it was as thick as a fabric - I think I felt the most naked because I couldn't cover myself at all. I didn't have to, so I had to be much more open and relaxed.

Ronda Rousey

I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer.

Ronda Rousey

Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.

Ron Brown

Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

Romeo Santos

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

Ron Conway

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

Ron Conway

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

Ron Atkinson

I would also think that the replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.

Romola Garai

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

Romola Garai

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

Romola Garai

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

Romola Garai

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

Ron Chernow

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

Roger Lewis

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

I don't get much sauciness, I'm too old for saucy now, but back in the day I think there were a few marriage proposals. And I do use the fact women approach me as a chance to chat them up. They never seem to mind too much.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm already a grandad, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

Roger Babson

There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?

Umberto Eco

The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void.

Umberto Eco

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

Umberto Eco

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Umberto Eco

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.