Robert Shaw Quotations

There is no point in pushing toward municipal or general elections in Nepal. First, there needs to be a democratic process.

Whether or not the U.S. will accept any changes to its current role in managing the Internet remains to be seen, ... Let's just say there's now a lot of momentum to do so.

We did not have much of a break. The teachers, faculty and I all worked to get our offices and classrooms set up before the students returned. I think the community will be proud of our new facility.

This project fills a void in this part of Dallas by providing a village center -- an inviting environment and gathering spot for daytime office workers as well as residents near or visiting the Galleria area. As the name implies, Village on the Green will be a refreshing oasis for relaxation and retail and I predict it will become the new destination for after-hours dining and entertainment.

Most people's salaries didn't increase by that much, ... Lee County had a concept called a (tax) rollback.

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

I don't know whether anybody could really convey the kind of devastation and kind of hurt and feeling and appreciativeness people have in this community, because they don't know where they're going and where they'll be tomorrow and the next day.

There are several paragraphs that call for changes in the way the Internet is governed today. And the U.S. has agreed to these. That's a fact.

Last week, we had very high expectations for these babies, and to this point, they have fulfilled all of those expectations remarkably well, ... Face the Nation.

I'm here to get out of the cold. I love Detroit, and it's good to have this here.

We never imagined that we would have the opportunity or the need to gear up with this type of planning ... It's not an occurrence that I would expect to repeat during my career. I can say that with some degree of relief but mostly pride in the entire team having risen to this occasion.

We are having a delayed response to an improving market because construction and land costs are creating a situation where the new projects can't be underwritten. The rents aren't moving enough to support a lot of new development.

A deserted homestead is always a sad sight, but here in the South we must look a little deeper than the surface, and then we see that every such overgrown plantation, and empty house, is a harbinger of freedom to the slaves, and every lover of his country, even if he have no feeling for the slaves themselves, should rejoice.

So the Proclamation of Emancipation, has come at last, or rather its forerunner. I suppose you are all very much excited about it. For my part, I can't see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been there remain no slaves, and the Proclamation will not free them where we don't go.

That's when he came out of their yard and into our fence, ... He closed our fence and knocked on the door. He was walking like he was on a Sunday stroll ? except he was covered in blood. At first, I thought he was wearing gloves, but his hands were covered in blood.

It's the burning question of the day. The media needs to openly discuss the effects of the affair and also key things, like the importance of not compromising on editorial independence.

It is time for me to take a break,

It was like the whole world turned upside down, ... I walked half way into the yard and I saw this man (Joseph Silva) standing over two people saying, 'You just couldn't let it go'. I noticed that the lady (Cook) wasn't moving.

I want to remain in sport but I need some different challenges to those I have dealt with for much of my time in football.

I once asked Otto Preminger if it was possible for someone to be a character actor and a star. He said 'No.' I'd like to prove him wrong.

I'll just go over there and finish them off.

I drink too much. Will you tell me one great actor who doesn't drink?

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

There's no future in being poor.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.