Robyne Hanley Dafoe Quotes

#1. The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.

John Scalzi

#2. Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Chris Hadfield

#3. Tonight I Can Write

Pablo Neruda

#4. Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.

John Madden

#5. I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

Joan Didion

#6. Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

Chris Cleave

#7. I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

Dennis Hopper

#8. I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.

Gillian Armstrong

#9. Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley

#10. I loved my father. Most people did. He did try his best. He did provide for his family. He taught me many things and gave me a work ethic that made me who I am today: a guy who would throw his own father under the bus in a book about parenting.

Jim Gaffigan

#11. She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman.

Anthony Trollope

#12. I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.

Evel Knievel

#13. I know the world is hungry for good ministry.

James Green Somerville

#14. Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.

Joseph Jacobs

#15. This did not prevent him from going to print shop every morning and working as conscientiously as ever, following the advice of Yochanan ben Zakkai: 'If you are planting an olive tree when you learn that the Messiah has come, finish planting the olive tree and then go to greet the messiah.

Marek Halter