Top 100 Roland's Quotes
#1. If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
Roland Joffe
#2. To be engulfed: outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment. At its best, when it's fulfillment, it's a kind of disappearance at will. An easeful death. Death liberated from dying.
Roland Barthes
#3. I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine. p. 22
Roland Merullo
#4. There are teachers who say that one of the main obstacles, spiritual obstacles, for westerners is a sense of unworthiness, a self-limiting sense of what's possible for them in a human life.
Roland Merullo
#5. Hope you two boys can dig. There'll be some digging to do." "Graves?" Eddie asked, not sure if he was joking or not. "Graves come later." Roland looked up at the sky, but the clouds had advanced out of the west and stolen the stars. "Just remember, it's the winners who dig them.
Stephen King
#6. By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?
C.S. Lewis
#7. We all carry pieces of our journeys within us," Roland said. "We all learn from our mistakes. Who's to say we don't deserve happiness?
Lauren Kate
#8. There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
Roland Emmerich
#9. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
"
Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.
Sarah J. Maas
#10. Everything began all over again immediately: arrival of manuscripts, requests, people's stories, each person mercilessly pushing ahead his own little demand (for love, for gratitude): No sooner has she departed than the world deafens me with its continuance.
Roland Barthes
#11. We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.
Roland Allen
#13. - You have never known a Woman's body!
- I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying.
Roland Barthes
#14. Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.
Stephen King
#15. If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.
Roland Joffe
#16. If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.
Roland Merullo
#17. My lord, I cannot thank you enough for what you've done for my daughters," he muttered. Lucien had paid Roland's debts, however it had cost her father his freedom to allow Lucien to do so. Their agreement
Denise Hampton
#18. Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.
Stephen King
#19. It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.
Roland Joffe
#20. I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
Roland Barthes
#21. The whole point of a spectacular tag is not the artwork; it's the mystery of how it was done.
Roland Smith
#22. Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.
Neal Shusterman
#23. I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.
Roland Joffe
#24. Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
Rafael Nadal
#25. There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.
Roland Emmerich
#26. I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.
Roland Emmerich
#27. Right is what all this is about," Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off.
Stephen King
#28. Roland, love means not being afraid to let yourself go, trusting that I will desire everything you have to offer. -Rosaline (Roland's love)
Lauren Kate
#29. Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.
Roland Barthes
#30. here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland saw her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed between the Fathers of the Church, and heard her firm foot ring on metal among the German poets. Here
A.S. Byatt
#31. Making choices for the feelings they bring us & not what others think means we can find fulfilment and achievement from fulfilling our goals.
From the writers of Carolann's Pathway and Carolann's Progression, The Gateway to Understanding your Life's Ultimate Journey
Roland Bush-Cavell And Carolann Frankie
#32. It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
Roland Emmerich
#33. Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language - the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.
Roland Barthes
#34. Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed between the Fathers of the Church, and heard her firm foot ring on metal among the German poets.
A.S. Byatt
#35. Roland's heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly go on beating in the face of this.
Stephen King
#36. I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.
Roland Joffe
#37. Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
Roland Barthes
#38. There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.
Roland Smith
#39. I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
Roland Joffe
#41. There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.
Roland Allen
#42. I don't know why I feel so safe with you. I shouldn't let my guard down so much. There's something about you, Jameson. - Melody Roland
Nikki Lynn Barrett
#43. [Roland] Barthes turned the thable on the author, saying no only the a book needs a reader to wake it into life, but that in so doing the reader becomes nothing less that the author, who reveals in the book's hermeneutic possibilities, releases them and so becomes its own creator.
Robert Rowland Smith
#44. I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.
Roland Emmerich
#45. Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world
Stephen King
#46. Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language.
Roland Barthes
#47. the twelfth-century Song of Roland, which turns the bloody incident into a major conspiracy between the Arabs of Zaragoza and a traitor within Charlemagne's own camp.
Susan Wise Bauer
#48. Even though we are a nation that's becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.
Roland Martin
#49. L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
Roland Barthes
#50. What?" Roland croaked. "That...that's impossible." "I don't think Sara knows that word.
Karen Lynch
#51. It seems to me that none of this stuff is mine, that I'm nothing but Roland of Gilead's fucking secretary. I know that's stupid, but a part of me sort of believes it.
Stephen King
#52. I thought I heard a cow mooing in Seese's back yard. Later on, later down the road, as they say, I would learn that this was the sound of the Rinpoche chanting some ancient prayer. But, at that moment, it sounded to me very much like a mooing cow.
Roland Merullo
#53. There are gators, thousands of them. " said Rashawn.
" Then we better get out of here before we end up as a feast for gators." said Nicole. " What are going to do with him?" looking at the dead driver. " Let's get out of here and let him be the feast
Roland Smith
#55. It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
Roland Gift
#56. A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water.
Stephen King
#57. I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.
Roland Martin
#58. Have you heard that someone's dreams could be another's reality?
Ed Roland
#59. A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.
Roland Smith
#60. I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
Roland Emmerich
#61. I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.
Peter Jacobson
#62. America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.
Philip Roth
#63. In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean?
Roland Barthes
#64. I'm scared," he says.
"I know," says the nurse.
"I want you all to go to Hell."
"That's natural.
Neal Shusterman
#65. It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.
Roland Emmerich
#66. There were two postmortem, ventilation wounds to the skull via the right eye," the Acme said. "Nada's double-tap after he was dead," Mac interpreted for Roland. "Yeah, yeah," Roland said. "We know we killed the S.O.B. Tell us something we don't know.
Bob Mayer
#67. Christianity, said Erasmus, has been made to consist not in loving one's neighbor but in abstaining from butter and cheese during Lent.
Roland H. Bainton
#68. Oy?" he asked. "Will you say goodbye?"
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.
Stephen King
#69. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.
Stephen King
#70. It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.
Stephen King
#72. A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain
Stephen King
#73. Willpower and dedication are good words' Roland remarked 'There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession
Stephen King
#74. Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She
Stephen King
#75. The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
Roland Joffe
#76. Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman's belongings.
Began the day by looking at her photographs.
A cruel mourning begins again (but had never ended).
To begin again without resting. Sisyphus.
Roland Barthes
#77. Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
Roland De Vaux
#78. Snails mate faster than Farnsworths."
Georgie gave her a chastening look. "Eliza."
"Well, it's true. I've watched."
"You've spied on Sir Roland?"
"No, I've spied on snails.
Tessa Dare
#79. It's like the difference between a kid who goes to school and learns and a kid who goes to school and learns and comes home to parents who are reading to her and talking to her about the world, showing her things, teaching by their actions.
Roland Merullo
#80. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
Roland Barthes
#81. And he thought that, had he been wearing his guns, he might well have drawn one and put a bullet in Susan Delgado's cold and whoring little heart.
Stephen King
#82. What is he doing here?" Curran growled.
"He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade.
"Tough luck. You're mine.
Ilona Andrews
#83. This charity ... They quibble too much over procedures ... while we seek a cure. They complain too loudly against another who, seemingly, has perfected a work that the public expects its charity dollars to do. Maybe we should investigate the American Cancer Society's operations.
Roland V. Libonati
#84. One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.'-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup
Jamie Malanowski
#85. My audience expects cold, hard truth. They don't expect me to dance around it. They expect me to say it the way they think it. That's part of my brand. If I don't do that, then my audience goes, 'What's up? Is he sick or something? What's wrong with him?' The entity has a brand.
Roland Martin
#86. It's a problem, isn't it?" "It's an opportunity," Roland corrected.
Stephen King
#87. If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
Stephen King
#88. Woman, I'm not Roland's sister, or his daughter, either! You maybe didn't notice a small but basic difference in the color of our hides, namely his being white and mine being black.
Stephen King
#89. Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things."
" You're right," Jake said. "He should have been at least sixteen like you before he became part of an international crime ring.
Roland Smith
#90. It's not your bullets I fear, Roland. It's your idea of answers that scares me.
Stephen King
#91. I waver - in the dark - between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together - and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.
Roland Barthes
#92. You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's what makes people go back to people they shouldn't ever go back to.
Roland Merullo
#93. I just want to hold you. I want to be near you." She whispered, "I feel like I'm spiraling out of control and you are the one that keeps me together. I don't know why, or how, but that's just what it is. - Melody Roland
Nikki Lynn Barrett
#94. Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
Roland Joffe
#95. There's about six original people in the world. The rest of everybody else are copycats. When it comes to religion and politics, ninety percent of people do what their parents did and think they made up their minds for themselves. They watch the news to see what the latest trends are.
Roland Merullo
#96. In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.
Roland Orzabal
#97. The power that conquers Fear is the power that becomes the forge in creating a hero's heart' a quote from one of the Roland of the High Crags novels.
B.R. Stateham
#98. The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other ...
Roland Barthes
#99. As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don't do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires ... And I think of Bloy's words: there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable.
Roland Barthes
#100. Everybody can adore you because you're on television, but at the end of the day, when you're no longer on TV, who's still there? It's family.
Roland Martin