Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodrigo Rato

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

Roelof Botha

I think of myself as just another consumer.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Roger Angell

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.

Roger Ailes

I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.

Roger Ailes

As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away.

Roger Ailes

In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.

Roger Ailes

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

Roger Ailes

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

Roger Ailes

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

Robinson Cano

2010 was my best season so far but I think I can get better at everything.

Robyn Davidson

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.

Robyn Davidson

There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

Robin Wright

I like movies that make you think.

Robin Wright

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

Robin Tunney

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Robin Tunney

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Robyn Carr

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

Robinson Jeffers

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Robin Williams

My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.

Robin Williams

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

Robin Williams

Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.

Robin Williams

In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.

Robin Williams

I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.

Robin Williams

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

Robin Williams

I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'

Robin Williams

If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go What happens if you take two?

Robin Williams

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers

Robin Williams

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

Robin Williams

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Robin Williams

I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.

Robin Williams

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.