R. Rose Quotes

Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.

You can turn the sphere for a cutting point, but if you're really just existing in the 180, cutting is much easier. If you're existing in a 360 space, it gets more complex.

The more you populate the 360-degree space, the more difficult it is to cut within that.

All men are brothers and each man is free.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

I want to please every woman, every time.

I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.

Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.

I don't believe in retirement.

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...

Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.

As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.

I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.

I always put a little bit of restrictions on myself, and I only do it for my creativity.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.

I go through the motions of living in society

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

I will love you truly forever and a day!

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc

Mother was, ' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age.

Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix.

From the stars, to the stars.