Roger Hargreaves Quotes

#1. I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

George Thorndike Angell

#2. I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, 'Boy, this is just a real interesting place to begin a character.' I had to figure out how to go about playing someone who had hit rock bottom.

Timothy Hutton

#3. Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.

Cate Blanchett

#4. The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. There's a goose asleep in the rain!

Roger Hargreaves

#6. Meow!" said the chicken.

Roger Hargreaves

#7. You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.

Ronald Isley

#8. At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

Ibn Khaldun

#9. Colin "I'm just
I'm just a failure. what if this is it?
andI never do anything significant and I'm just a complete waste?"
Hassan sat up, with his hands on his knees. "See, this is why you need to believe in God.

John Green

#10. The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Nora Ephron

#11. I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

John Hawkes

#12. The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

Heinz Pagels

#13. I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Pamela Anderson

#14. With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

Alain Ducasse

#15. I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

Camille Paglia

#16. I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of "simple" or "complex" music - has become increasingly problematic and is almost never productive.

Michael Hersch