R. Rose Quotes

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how to party. One of my jobs is actually to travel the world and party.

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above all forget the money, just make sure you love what you're doing.

An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first

It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.

I think I work hard. I think I dedicate myself to the game and sacrifice a lot of things at a young age, and I know if I continue to do good, what I can get out of it.

My son is everything to me. He's the reason why I get up and I work out the way I work out and train the way that I train. He changed everything about me, so he was a blessing.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains. Sell them on your roadmap and don't compromise - care about the details, the fit and finish.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.

Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.

Never forget that the road to Heaven is the Way of the Cross. Jesus has called us to follow Him, bearing the Cross as He did.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago’s teens.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.