C. G. D. Roberts Quotes

I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.

In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

No, I don't have a boyfriend, I don't want one.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

I can't wait to have kids; I just can't wait to hold a baby in my arms.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

You don't ever want to appear like you're wearing too much makeup. If you have a heavy eye and a heavy lip, people are like, 'Wow, what are you trying to cover up?'

I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

Dolls are like small dead people.

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

I've sort of grown into my cuteness.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

The simple and most complex answer is love.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that Im in.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

We all have things that will knock us down, but there's always something that will pick you back up. It's about those moments that make everything worthwhile.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.