R. A. Rooney Quotes

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Yeah, every team has to look to maximize their revenue.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

I don't know what I'm searching for. I haven't found it. I don't have a job, and I don't have anything lined up. I don't know what I'm looking for.

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

Walking is good for the soul.

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

The last birthday that's any good is 23.

I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.

On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages

I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high.

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

We're going to do it. We're going to get to the World Cup.

To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own.

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

I love Barbados, it's really relaxing.

I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

Dogs are nicer than people.

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.