Robert Shaw Quotes

#1. I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

Steven Spielberg

#2. Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.

Carol Bellamy

#3. I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.

Carl Weathers

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

Robert Shaw

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

Robert Shaw

#6. 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.

Robert Shaw

#7. 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.

Robert Gould Shaw

#8. Since God doesn't have a name, I'll give him the name of Simptar. It doesn't come from any language. I give myself the name Amptala. As far as I know no such name exists. Perhaps in a language earlier than Sanskrit, an it-language.

Clarice Lispector

#9. There's no future in being poor.

Robert Shaw

#10. ... is inhabited by a Mrs. Buckle,four children,a fat black woman, and myself and a man.

Robert Gould Shaw

#11. 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.

Robert Shaw

#12. 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.

Robert Gould Shaw

#13. Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#14. Soldiers planted like vegetables waiting for the day of harvest. ... everything is more intense at night, perfectly beautiful, and when the wind shifts and the reek of rotting meat vanishes for a few blessed minutes you can smell the sweet scent of the countryside.

Louis De Bernieres

#15. If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

Robert Gould Shaw

#16. If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.

Charlie Munger

#17. Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.

P.C. Cast

#18. Happy Thanksgiving," he says, handing me my ticket. "Let's see some dead people.

Stephanie Perkins

#19. Many people today have grown up believing that they are entitled to a good time, that that's what life is all about. They put their pleasures ahead of their children, then feel guilty and become placating slaves to the children to make up for it.

Robert Shaw

#20. When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

Sherry Argov

#21. You can't sing Beethoven from the neck up --- you'll bleed! Beethoven is not precious. He's prodigal as hell. He tramples all over nicety. He's ugly, heroic; he roars, he lusts after beauty, he rages after nobility. Be ye not temperate!

Robert Shaw

#22. Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Robert M. Hutchins

#23. Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.

T. Colin Campbell

#24. Any activity?" Robert asked.
"Not in the lasssht ten minutesh. Before that, very exshiting. I shaw Wolf Beta run by. There were vampiresh chassing her. She was yelling, 'Bill me, bloodshuckers!

Ilona Andrews

#25. 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.

Robert Shaw

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

Robert Shaw

#27. There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.

Robert Englund

#28. 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.

Robert Shaw

#29. I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.

P.G. Wodehouse

#30. Make the most of your yard of space and your inch of time.

Robert Shaw