Top 100 Roberto Quotes
#1. Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event!
Roberto Hogue
#2. I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
Roberto Duran
#3. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.
Roberto Bolano
#4. Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
Roberto Cavalli
#5. Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.
Roberto Orci
#6. When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.
Roberto Orci
#8. Yeah, take it from me. He may try to sell himself to you along with the company. And then there is Roberto, the CEO of our acquisition target. He also seems to be a bit of a flirt. Those two are like moths around a light bulb with you. Any idea how you would react if they both came after you?
Karynne Summars
#9. One of the inconveniences of stealing books - especially for a novice like myself - is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.
Roberto Bolano
#10. As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
Roberto Bolano
#11. The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.
Roberto Giobbi
#12. Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.
Roberto Azevedo
#13. I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
Roberto Clemente
#14. The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
Roberto Duran
#15. Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.
Roberto Assagioli
#16. Great sex is all about freedom and being everything you've always wanted to be. Know now that the only limits you have in regards to your own sexuality are the ones you impose on yourself.
Roberto Hogue
#17. When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.
Roberto Alomar
#18. The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
Roberto Bolano
#20. Morini read the letter three times. With a heavy heart, he thought how wrong Norton was when she said her love and her ex-husband and everything they'd been through were behind her. Nothing is ever behind us.
Roberto Bolano
#21. When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.
Roberto Unger
#22. My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.
Roberto Azevedo
#23. Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
Gerry Cooney
#25. I who have nothing may have nothing, but I'll always have something that you don't. And that's respect.
Roberto Flores
#26. I began to tremble and he noticed. Why do I have to like the worst ones? I thought, why do I have to be attracted to the most brooding, least cultured, most desperate ones? It's a question I ask myself twice a year. I still haven't found an answer.
Roberto Bolano
#27. In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.
Roberto Mancini
#29. Ignorance; lack of knowledge or lack of curiosity.
Roberto Llamas
#30. Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
Roberto Bolano
#31. Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
#32. A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.
Roberto Burle Marx
#33. The borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden borders of ethics.
Roberto Bolano
#34. In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
Roberto Benigni
#35. Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.
Roberto Bolano
#36. Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.
Carlos Beltran
#37. There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
Roberto Cavalli
#39. If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.
Roberto Bolano
#40. I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
Roberto Bolano
#42. In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.
Roberto Clemente
#43. ... where Halder and Hans usually arrived first and had something to eat, perhaps sausage with a bit of sauerkraut.
Roberto Bolano
#44. Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!
Roberto Benigni
#45. ... untill he felt Ingeborg slip two fingers into her vagina and then moisten the entrance to her ass with the same fingers and ask him, no, order, him to penetrate her, sodomize her, right now, immediately, before another moment passed, which Reiter did without thinking twice ...
Roberto Bolano
#46. The tears brimming in her eyes make me stop. I cannot suffer a woman to cry. Elizabeth and I have an agreement: she does not cry in arguments anymore and I let her win them all.
Roberto Calas
#48. Real sex is as much about reciprocity as it is exploration and if you need a reason to resent a man later on, just consider the guy who doesn't believe in cunnilingus ...
Roberto Hogue
#49. Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
Roberto Cavalli
#51. ... dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some dangerous indeed) ...
Roberto Bolano
#52. Learn something today in order to make tomorrow a better today.
Roberto Wallace
#53. Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.
Roberto Bolano
#54. Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
Roberto Hogue
#55. There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.
Roberto Bolano
#56. 'Star Trek Into Darkness' isn't that 'Star Trek' is going to be no fun, and dark. It's that the fun's going to be challenged by some serious issues.
Roberto Orci
#57. I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.
Roberto Orci
#58. Life is a beautiful and challenging project! Together we can make it a wonderful experience...
Roberto Rodriguez Esteves
#59. In other words: Allende's work is bad, but it's alive; it's anaemic, like a lot of Latin Americans, but it's alive. It won't live long, like many sick people, but for now it's alive. And there's always the possibility of a miracle.
Roberto Bolano
#60. For a while she thought about becoming a vegetarian. Instead, she took up smoking.
Roberto Bolano
#61. I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.
Roberto Bolano
#62. When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.
Roberto Bolano
#63. Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it.
Roberto Bolano
#64. Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Roberto Duran
#65. Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.
Roberto Calasso
#66. We interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
Roberto Bolano
#67. Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all I did was start to cry like a fool, for no apparent reason.
Roberto Bolano
#68. Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
Roberto Bolano
#69. If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.
Roberto Bolano
#70. Her eyes like the ideal
geography book:
maps of pure nightmare.
"The Ghost of Edna Lieberman
Roberto Bolano
#71. Sometimes the choices you make are good and other times it goes the other way. I take full responsibility as coach.
Roberto Mancini
#72. He asked me when I planned to come back. Always, I said.
Roberto Bolano
#73. I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.
Roberto Cavalli
#74. I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.
Roberto Cavalli
#75. The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
Roberto Rossellini
#77. These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he would never be a fiction writer, and, in his own way, he was brave.
Roberto Bolano
#79. They talk but their words don't register on the soundtrack. Anyway, they must be saying things like how was your day, I'm tired, there's an avocado sandwich in the kitchen, thanks, thanks, a beer in the refrigerator.
Roberto Bolano
#80. For me, I am the best" Roberto Clemente
John Krich
#81. He turned his face into the stream of water and closed his eyes. I'm not as sad as I'd have thought, he told himself. This is all unreal, he said to himself.
Roberto Bolano
#82. If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
Roberto Clemente
#83. If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is to quit smoking, one could say that Liz Norton was a woman who found it easier to quit smoking than to go to war.
Roberto Bolano
#84. I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
Roberto Bolano
#85. I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
Roberto Cavalli
#87. I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.
Roberto Duran
#88. It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.
Roberto Civita
#89. It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished
Roberto Assagioli
#91. I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.
Roberto Benigni
#92. Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.
Perry Groves
#93. I'm finding that I'm working with more and more Latino artists, and that's exciting.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
#94. You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.
Roberto Bolano
#96. Where the hell are you, Cimil?"
"Popping tags with Roberto," she replied.
"Popping what?" he asked.
Cimil growled. "You shame Macklemore - I'm at a thrift store. Where else would a goddess find a microwave for her potpie and a new pair of pink hot pants? And a Lee Majors doll! Score!
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#97. The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?
Roberto Bolano
#98. To sum up, as Bibiano said, quoting Parra: that's how it goes, the glory of the world; no world, no glory, not even a miserable mortadella sandwich
Roberto Bolano
#99. Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.
Roberto Rossellini
#100. Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler's screwdrivers.
Roberto Hogue
