He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.


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ROBERT COLLIER
I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST
The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST
We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ROBERT FROST
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST
I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST
What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST
The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST