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JANE BIRKIN A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.
ISRAEL SHENKER He did not say that the only true nightmare was not being able to do something and that this, at lea...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu...
JAMES BLAYLOCK Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
JOHN GREEN He's one of those players that you look at at this age and say that he can probably go as far as he ...
GRAHAM WHITEHOUSE Mealtime

"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN I was told that President Truman was at times scornful of what he considered the inability of Govern...
DAVID BRUCE Robert Sandler is a child who died when he was three years old, and he is a child who was the first ...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosop...
RAEKWON A child will behave as he has been taught. Tolerance is one of the first lessons to be learnt.
VIKRANT PARSAI Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they had...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE If you look at what Tim accomplished as a true freshman, I was disappointed he didn't get any awards...
IAIN BYRNE A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how h...
JOHN MUIR I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my car...
VERNE TROYER He is able to motivate a team as well as anyone I've seen. Any coach you hire should be competitive ...
DICK WOODS It's been going on for at least 80 years and as far as I can see it is going to go on for at least a...
ROBERT AUMANN Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER He has a basic constitutional and human right to determine with whom his child visits.... As long as...
LAWRENCE WHITNEY I was amazed at just what a great improviser in the true sense of the word he is, As frail as Dave i...
MICHAEL MOORE The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu...
ROBERT PINSKY True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just ...
JOHN HAY Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN He has been conscious at all times, and when he has been able to, he has spoken normally with his fa...
MANUEL CERVERA The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he w...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he w...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Everybody likes to befriend a Soft spoken person. Therefore one should always speak good of others a...
RIG VEDA As far as Christopher, I believe he's a child that needs to be the youngest child in the home. He is...
LINDA HARKEY There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least ...
DANIEL BERRIGAN he may be able to say something good in the weeks ahead, but at least as it appears right now, that ...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN When Wily Mo sees the ball well, he makes good decisions as far as balls and strikes. Wily works at ...
CHRIS CHAMBLISS Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
he wi...
STEPHEN R. COVEY As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We d...
STEPHEN ROOT When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a perso...
WILLIAM SANDERSON Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
ADAM JONES One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak i...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU He can wrap himself in the rule of law and say, 'The people have spoken, ... This is probably one is...
TONY QUINN Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far ...
TIM BURTON A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm ...
HEATH LEDGER What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ...
DENISE SMITH It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison gu...
NEIL GAIMAN I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He wou...
MIKE WALLACE They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he...
JACK CADE He always is going to say something about the losing streak. Whenever he remembers, he comes and thr...
DARIUS WALKER He has this position open and he inquired if I would be interested. That's as far as it's at.
RICH GLAS In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as ...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN Anyone would want to play like him, he was completely at a different level as far as mental toughnes...
SACHIN TENDULKAR The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
LORD BYRON ...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY He won't be 100 percent, but at least he will be in the race. He will be able to race and he could h...
PACO ANTEQUERA My favourite part is when GreenHollyWood says to don't lie and then he lies to my mother... so far i...
DEYTH BANGER A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid
STANLEY BALDWIN I most definitely knows God is strong. If he were weak he would not have been able to hold me when I...
ESTHER EARL When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just a...
WALTER PAYTON There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased...
ANNIE DILLARD As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's product...
RED ADAIR Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and will become as h...
JIMMY JOHNSON He is even going to be better when he is at 100 percent. As long as he said he was feeling good, he ...
BYRON WALKER True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just whe...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
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A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duti...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and bo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
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