Top 100 Roberta's Quotes
#1. What had happened was going to be always on me, in me, as permanent as one of Roberta's tattoos. "Dolores," I said. I repeated my name over and over until it sounded warped and unreal. I was never going to be myself again.
Wally Lamb
#2. I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
Lauryn Hill
#3. I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
Roberta Flack
#4. You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
Roberta Smith
#5. Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion.
Neal Shusterman
#6. Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
Roberta Flack
#7. Why do they need you on Molokai?"
"I'm not at liberty to say."
"'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say.
Neal Shusterman
#8. Wait, what's that sound? Oh yes, it's you, sounding ridiculous.
Roberta Degnore
#9. You have a responsibility to teach your boss. You make your boss successful, you become successful. Your boss fails, you fail. If the person is arrogant, regardless of age, go get another job because it doesn't work.
Roberta Chinsky Matuson
#10. I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
Peabo Bryson
#11. I don't know who said it but, "The best revenge is to live a good life.
Roberta Gibson
#12. (I am tired of calling Roberta by her name. I don't see why I should. No one else did. Everyone else called her Bobbie, and I don't see why I shouldn't.)
E. Nesbit
#13. Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.
Roberta Bondi
#14. I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
Donna Leon
#15. The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.
Roberta Williams
#16. I have yet to meet a filmmaker who upon seeing her footage for the first time, didn't want to simultaneously bust open a bottle of Champagne, and move to another country to take a job as a bike courier. This is normal.
Roberta Marie Munroe
#17. I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
Roberta Williams
#18. Forgiveness in no way requires you to trust the one you forgive. It doesn't mean the relationship must be restored. p. 61
Roberta Fish
#19. Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
Roberta Flack
#20. Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde:
Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in his bedroom): "Either it goes, or I do."
Wilding, Adelyn (of the gum splooches on the sidewalk): "Ditto."
Roberta Pearce
#21. What do you know about insurance fraud?
I knew discussions of it were not likely to lead to sex.
Roberta Pearce
#23. All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
John Irving
#25. God looks at the world through the eyes of love. If we, therefore, as human beings made in the image of God, also want to see reality rationally, that is, as it truly is, then we, too, must learn to look at what we see with love.
Roberta Bondi
#26. Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you.
Roberta Flack
#27. If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.
Roberta Williams
#28. Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.
Roberta Flack
#29. Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
Roberta Williams
#30. I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.
Roberta Pearce
#31. Who can understand the covert world of the emotions, the secret life of the mind?
Roberta Parry
#32. They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern.
Well, okay ... maybe medieval.
Roberta Pearce
#33. Abundant afterlife evidence tells us that we are here to learn to forgive completely and learn to love others universally.
Roberta Grimes
#34. King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.
Roberta Williams
#35. You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.
Roberta Cava
#36. I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.
Roberta Williams
#37. He thought, We will miss Roberta Rockingham when she dies; of us, she is the most benign and stable.
Because, he realized, she knows she is soon going to die.
Philip K. Dick
#38. To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well.
Roberta C. Bondi
#39. My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One day, they would find me and take me away from the gypsy caravan that was my life, and give me hot meals, a decent dress, and a pony.
Roberta Pearce
#40. If it is God who gives prayer, then God often gives it in the form of gratitude, and gratitude itself, when it is received attentively in prayer, is healing to the heart. Prayer is such a mysterious business for something so ordinary and everyday.
Roberta Bondi
#41. I've always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.
Melika Dannese Lux
#42. You're not eating, Cam," Roberta says as she comes out to join him across the table. Roberta - his creator, or builder - whatever term one gives to the individual who conceived of you. Perhaps, then, it should be "mother," though he's loath to use the word.
Neal Shusterman
#43. The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes
Roberta Flack
#44. I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.
Roberta Smith
#45. The yellowy things on the tray were probably eggs, but they looked like they came pre-scrambled from alien chickens.
Roberta Pearce
#46. Didn't being out in the storm scare you?"
"Try a couple of high-summer prairie storms in a trailer," she mused. "That either makes you terrified of them or indifferent to them.
Roberta Pearce
#47. However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family.
Roberta Bondi
#49. Before anything else, above all else, beyond all else God love us. God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition. God is in love with us ... God yearns for us.
Roberta Bondi
#50. Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
Roberta Flack
#51. I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.
Roberta Williams
#52. Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
Whitney Houston
#53. Love as a disposition does not primarily act on abstract principle. Instead it is a way of seeing habitually and responding to the real,
separate, individual needs of each of the people we encounter in our lives every single day.
Roberta C. Bondi
#54. I didn't mean to wake you." "'S'okay," I said. "How am I?" "High." He chuckled. It was a nice sound. He removed his warm hand. "I'll be back. I'm going to talk to the doctor." "'K." I floated off again.
Roberta Pearce
#55. The pains of all our labor to raise our child, continues to follow in cessation from one moment to the next.
Roberta Ruth Hill
#56. Odd that you should choose to be a midwife, having never experienced birth yourself." In other circumstances the words would have stung. She thought, Do not physicians provide medicaments for illnesses they have never suffered?
Roberta Rich
#57. When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I'd picked up a book of my Gram's, a dog-eared romance from the 'sixties about English hospital 'sisters' trying to get it on with the doctors, and thought it very shocking behaviour for nuns.
Roberta Pearce
#58. As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
Roberta Flack
#59. There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.
Roberta Flack
#60. Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.
Roberta Smith
#61. Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge
Jennifer A. Girardin
#62. Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.
Roberta Gellis
#63. So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
Roberta Flack
#65. Lipstick is really magical. It holds more than a waxy bit of color - it holds the promise of a brilliant smile, a brilliant day, both literally and figuratively.
Roberta Gately
#67. Until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
#68. Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom - I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity.
Roberta Pearce
#69. Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.
Roberta Flack
#70. You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the shining star you are!'
'Let's hope I don't give birth to complex elements.'
She looks at him quizzically.
'Supernova,' he says. 'If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.
Neal Shusterman
#71. I want to be like him when I'm old - I want to be able to lose myself in worship and sing loud and not care if I'm off-key.
Roberta Gore
#72. I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
Roberta Williams
#73. Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.
Roberta Smith
#74. Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.
Roberta Gellis
#75. A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ...
Roberta Flack
#76. At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.
Roberta Williams
#77. I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.
Roberta Williams
#78. Oh!" said Roberta, drawing a long breath; "it was like a great dragon tearing by. Did you feel it fan us with its hot wings?" "I suppose a dragon's lair might look very like that tunnel from the outside," said Phyllis.
E. Nesbit
#79. When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.
Roberta Bondar
#80. Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
Roberta Flack
#81. Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.
Roberta Flack
#82. God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition.
Roberta Bondi
#83. Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.
Roberta Flack
#84. Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.
Roberta Gellis
#85. You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.
Roberta Williams
#86. I missed all the good stuff," I said, looking down at the gardens awash in early-morning light and cops. "Such as the gurney with the body bag?
Roberta Pearce
#87. I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.
Roberta Flack
#88. I don't believe that celebrity spokeswomen get their hair colour from a box.
Roberta Pearce
#89. My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
Roberta Flack
#90. For the record, sports cars have ridiculously small trunks.
I know that for a fact, since I found myself stuffed into one.
Roberta Pearce
#91. The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
Roberta Smith
#92. By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.
Roberta Bondi
#93. My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
Roberta Williams
#94. I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.
Roberta Williams
#95. When a man sits down in quietness to listen to the teachings of his spirit, many things will come to him in knowledge and understanding. ~ ~ ~
Roberta Falkner
#96. That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
Roberta Flack
#97. I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Peabo Bryson
#98. At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
Charlie Jane Anders
#99. A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
Roberta Smith
#100. For the first time, he began calling himself Barack. Partly because a beautiful, older girl told him it was a great name. But also because he now felt that it was a great name, too, a name that belonged to him.
Roberta Edwards
