Top 100 Rory Quotes
#1. I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Living next to her. Promising to marry her. The
Suzanne Collins
#2. The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
Robert Smith
#4. All I want is to love you, Rory, I want so much more than our friendship. -Fenn
Candace Knoebel
#5. Rory said he loved me but wouldn't hold my hand in public. & he wanted so badly to end the pain, but it never went away, it stayed with the people that loved him.
Christopher Soto
#6. He [the Doctor] groaned. 'Why does it always have to be me?'
'Mr Rory is ill. You're the next best thing,' I [Maria] said simply.
'Thank you,' he muttered. He didn't sound very pleased at all at that.
James Goss
#7. Thank you, Spencer," Rory said.
In a flash Jack was inches from her face, bending over her so that his breath could be felt on her lips. "You don't thank Spencer. You thank me.
Alyssa Turner
#8. Alex rolled his eyes. "It's just a house party, Ror. I didn't promise you ... whatever the opposite of a sausage fest is."
Rory grinned unashamedly. "An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet?
Erin Lawless
#9. We're all a little scared sometimes, Rory. If that's what really bothering you them just remember that, okay?
Candace Knoebel
#10. Rory, do you want to go live in the sky? On a Pegasus?
Maureen Johnson
#11. Sometimes I'd hide him under the covers (Rory, not the mailman) so that when Victor turned down the bed there was Rory on his pillow, as if to say, SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKER! THERE'S A DEAD RACCOON IN YOUR BED AND HE WANTS SOME SNUGGLIN'.
Jenny Lawson
#12. Being afraid is part of living, Rory, just as much as being scared is part of being courageous. You can only be happy when you're brutally honest with yourself.
Winna Efendi
#13. Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.
-Doctor Who
Steven Moffat
#14. Oooh ... Aunt Chelsea called Jake the D-word!"
Rory's voice carries into the kitchen. "Dipshit?"
"No."
"Dumbass?"
"No."
"Douchebag?"
"What's a douchebag?"
"Rory!" Chelsea and I yell at exactly the same time.
Emma Chase
#15. What can I say? Love is blind," said Rory, sitting down next to Yamane. "Yamane here is the acknowledged world master of queer fu."
"Oh, no, you did not just say that." Yamane shot him a sour look and drank the last of Rory's beer.
Z.A. Maxfield
#16. I'm not broken. I'm shattered. I'm a million tiny pieces that would take longer than forever to piece back together."~ Rory
Sandi Lynn
#17. There's no such thing as a life free of complications, Rory. We all end up making compromises in the end.
Jojo Moyes
#18. He didn't look anything like the blokes on that gay porn channel Rory had clicked on by mistake when he'd been trying to find out how to make a daisy chain for Leo.
J.L. Merrow
#19. All that mattered was that he could look forward to aggravating the piss out of Rory each and every night.
R.L. Mathewson
#20. Paris is Rory without Lorelai's influence to draw her out of her books and into the wider world.
Jennifer Crusie
#21. You're enjoying this,' said Amy. 'My whole world has been taken over by a mysterious voice. All the people are extinct. Rory's gone. And you're enjoying this.'
'No, I'm not,' said the Doctor, trying hard not to show how much he was enjoying it.
Neil Gaiman
#22. The Doctor puffed out some air and looked down to the sea. 'A very charming man. I should be more careful of very charming men ... At least I don't have that problem with you, Rory.'
'Oi,' said Rory.
James Goss
#23. Rory did not want her.
After devoting so much effort to avoid being wed to a man she did not want, she found herself bound to a man who did not want her.
Margaret Mallory
#24. I want you, Rory. I want you in a way that's different from the other women."-Ian
Sandi Lynn
#25. Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith)
Steven Moffat
#26. Bush, it will go down in history, it's unbelievable that guy was president. Unbelievable. I'm sure, I'm 100 percent sure, in one hundred years, in one thousand years if society's still standing, they're going to say, "That guy was president? Like, what?" I know that to be a fact. RORY
Chris Smith
#27. If you fuck this up, I'm gonna have to kill you," Rory swore, leaning in to kiss him.
"I'm not gonna fuck this up," he promised as he met her lips in a hungry kiss.
"Good.
R.L. Mathewson
#28. Rory is fun when he's pissed off: like a fluffy little attack gerbil.
Tana French
#29. Rory, Rory, Rory - was it your idea to get The Sea to cure me?' [said the Doctor.]
'Yes,' said Rory, smiling.
'That was brilliant.' The Doctor beamed, then his face fell. '-ly awful.
James Goss
#30. I think it wasn't the Cirque du Soleil audition that was my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it's Rory.
Wendy S. Marcus
#31. Rory shook his head, "Tyler, my sister sees much more in herself than is actually there.
Saxon Andrew
#32. On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.
Matt Dickinson
#33. Books provide a handy shorthand when Rory's mostly MIA father, Christopher, is first introduced to viewers. Christopher's offer to buy Rory the Compact Oxford English Dictionary she covets is sincere; his lack of ability to follow through on his good intentions is Christopher in a nutshell.
Jennifer Crusie
#34. You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort.
Maureen Johnson
#35. Your soul is a pure, white light in a dark world. It will take a thousand worse sins to taint it."
Andrew turned to him. "What sins would those be?"
Rory grinned, slowly, devilishly. "Give me food, first, for strength, and I will show you.
Rosemary O'Malley
#36. This has been a covert preparation for an overt operation." - Rory in NEVER GO ALONE
Denison Hatch
#37. I want you, Rory," he said against her lips. "Forever."
"I want you too, Connor,"
...
"You've got me
R.L. Mathewson
#38. The scratching came from the attic. At night, when Rory turned out the light I would lie awake and wait for it to skit, skit, skit lightly across the floorboards above our heads and down behind the water pipes.
Kate Chisman
#39. Yamane reached out a hand. "You've got something on your lip," he murmured, rubbing it gently with his thumb.
"What?" Rory froze
"Me," said Yamane, closing the distance for a kiss.
Z.A. Maxfield
#40. I'm too old to be your adolescent experiment."
Rory called back, "I'm too old to be an experimenting adolescent."
Drawn Together
Z.A. Maxfield
#41. Talking to her sister always made Rory feel grounded and real again, as if she'd been holding her breath without realizing it and could finally let it out, could really be herself for a few moments. Was this how real friendships felt? Or just family? CHAPTER
Lena Mae Hill
#42. Maria looked at the TARDIS ... 'Is that really your carriage?' She asked. 'It is not very good, monsieur. It has no wheels.'
'It doesn't need them,' laughed Amy. 'It's an English carriage. They don't have wheels.
'Does Monsieur Rory push it?'
'When necessary,' laughed Amy.
James Goss
#43. Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.
Richie Benaud
#44. (Courtesy of Jeremy Johnson) Rory the Dead Raccoon stood up on his hind legs, his arms stretched out in glee. He looked like he was the most excited member of your surprise party, or like a Time Lord in the process of regenerating.
Jenny Lawson
#45. Tell me that you didn't break the ban, Rory. Tell me that there aren't two Bradfords beating the shit out of each other over the last slice of cheese in my kitchen.
R.L. Mathewson
#46. One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.
Rory Gallagher
#47. Poor Craw?" Ben retorted. "Poor Rory! Craw and Ari curse worse than a trucker shagging a sailor.
Amy Lane
#48. Rory the Dead Raccoon stood up on his hind legs, his arms stretched out in glee. He looked like he was the most excited member of your surprise party, or like a Time Lord in the process of regenerating. His
Jenny Lawson
#49. However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.
Rory Kinnear
#50. If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.
Rory McCann
#51. being meek and silent prevents social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking
Rory Miller
#52. I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result.
Rory McIlroy
#53. Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.
Rory Stewart
#54. Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you
Rory Miller
#55. Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.
Rory Culkin
#56. Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.
Rory Stewart
#57. It's really adorable." "That sounds adorable.
Rory Wilde
#58. Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.
Rory Vaden
#59. You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.
Rory McIlroy
#60. I love you. I love you and it sucks because now I'm going to lose my job and all our kids are to have red hair and I want at least one of them to be blonde, but they'll probably all have red hair and you're keeping secrets from me and I love you.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#61. The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.
Rory Vaden
#62. On that Sunday of the Masters I remember turning on ESPN to find people talking about me. I switched over to the Golf Channel and people were talking about me. It was hard to escape.
Rory McIlroy
#63. Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.
Rory Bremner
#64. To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.
Rory McIlroy
#65. But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.
Rory Bremner
#66. Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.
Rory Bremner
#67. I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.
Rory Bremner
#68. I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.
Rory McIlroy
#69. I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.
Rory Kennedy
#70. There's a certain - there's a different pressure with playing in a Ryder Cup. You know, you're not just playing for yourself. You're playing for your teammates. You're playing for your country.
Rory McIlroy
#71. I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.
Rory Stewart
#72. I've been seeing more and more Gardein soy chicken and soy beef products lately, and they're pretty darn good.
Rory Freedman
#73. My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.
Rory Freedman
#74. I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.
Rory McIlroy
#75. Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.
Rory Bremner
#76. Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.
Rory Gallagher
#77. There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight".
Rory MacDonald
#78. It's a new world that's very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President.
Rory Bremner
#79. When it comes to making commitments to other people, sometimes one of the hardest things to learn to say is no when we mean no.
Rory Vaden
#80. I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.
Rory Kinnear
#81. My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
Rory McIlroy
#82. Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.
Rory Vaden
#83. For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.
Rory Stewart
#84. The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story.
Rory Kennedy
#85. South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.
Rory Carroll
#86. Unlike most travel writers, he [Babur] is honest.
Rory Stewart
#87. Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.
Rory Stewart
#88. When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.
Rory Delap
#89. I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.
Rory Cochrane
#90. In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.
Rory Bremner
#91. When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the corner for, like, half an hour until she saw in the reflection, me behind her, and she freaked out and started slapping me.
Rory Culkin
#92. I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.
Rory McIlroy
#93. I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the fun and banter I had with my friends I remember the most.
Rory McIlroy
#94. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.
Rory Sutherland
#95. Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.
Rory Bremner
#96. No matter what any bleeding-heart tells you, 3% of the people in the world are scum. The trouble is, if you spent 80% of your time with that 3%, you start thinking that 80% of the world is scum.
Rory Miller
#97. I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.
Rory McCann
#98. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.
Rory Kinnear
#99. One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.
Rory Gallagher
#100. I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.
Rory McIlroy
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