C. G. D. Roberts Quotes

Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

The Point of Power Is in the Present.

There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

There's no heart like the Indian heart.

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

I only have girlfriends now who make me a better person.

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.

Be confident and not cocky.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

I need to write to be happy.

I'm really good with fighting with my feet.

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

Every game I played was a bonus.

Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.