R. A. Rooney Quotes

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.

I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.

My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'

Nowadays, it is fashionable for agents to be out. When you call them, they're always "out." It's in, you see, to be out. If they're in, they're out. So, they're always out. That way, they'll be in.

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

Nice to see your own fans booing you.

If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings

I'm only a human being.

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

I like musicals and I love music.

I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.

I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.

For the first time in fifteen years, he felt a mother's love again.

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.