Top 100 Rory's 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

Rory's Quotes #1251
#2. Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

Rory Miller

Rory's Quotes #35742
#3. Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

Rory Culkin

Rory's Quotes #39988
#4. It's really adorable." "That sounds adorable.

Rory Wilde

Rory's Quotes #48984
#5. 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

Rory's Quotes #80602
#6. 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

Rory's Quotes #82732
#7. 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

Rory's Quotes #96004
#8. 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

Rory's Quotes #104232
#9. There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight".

Rory MacDonald

Rory's Quotes #133143
#10. 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

Rory's Quotes #134503
#11. 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

Rory's Quotes #144398
#12. 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

Rory's Quotes #154379
#13. When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.

Rory Delap

Rory's Quotes #173409
#14. 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

Rory's Quotes #185800
#15. 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

Rory's Quotes #208828
#16. 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

Rory's Quotes #230205
#17. I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #298386
#18. What's fascinating about doing comedy about the referendum is, because it is the first time, it is the most extraordinary atmosphere. You find that if you are making jokes about politicians, it becomes intensely political.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #345590
#19. If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

Rory Stewart

Rory's Quotes #364016
#20. My parent are very proud, but Dad ripped into me for throwing a club on the 11th. He's happy with the way I played, but he always has to have something to moan about!

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #369729
#21. When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

Rory Kinnear

Rory's Quotes #382276
#22. Let go of who's right and focus on what's right

Rory Vaden

Rory's Quotes #427393
#23. I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #458284
#24. William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #501756
#25. Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #534354
#26. Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #544488
#27. John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys.

Rory Culkin

Rory's Quotes #546282
#28. I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #559331
#29. 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

Rory's Quotes #563994
#30. We're all a little scared sometimes, Rory. If that's what really bothering you them just remember that, okay?

Candace Knoebel

Rory's Quotes #586224
#31. Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #628343
#32. It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed.

Rory Miller

Rory's Quotes #646313
#33. In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

Rory Kinnear

Rory's Quotes #650497
#34. There's no beauty without some sadness or damage, or at least the potential of damage. If something's unbreakable, you can't love it because it doesn't need your love. It's the thing that don't last that really move us.

Rory Dunlop

Rory's Quotes #660149
#35. 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

Rory's Quotes #675065
#36. This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #686100
#37. Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.

Rory Vaden

Rory's Quotes #719583
#38. Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.
-Doctor Who

Steven Moffat

Rory's Quotes #736608
#39. I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers and sisters and me at a very young age, and for exposing them to the world and what's out there.

Rory Kennedy

Rory's Quotes #742951
#40. The owl loves its nest in the ruins, The Huma revels in making kings, The falcon will not leave the King's hand, And the wagtail pleads weakness.2

Rory Stewart

Rory's Quotes #745642
#41. 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

Rory's Quotes #754005
#42. It's been 18 months since I won on The European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #766470
#43. 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

Rory's Quotes #766884
#44. If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.

Rory Stewart

Rory's Quotes #772936
#45. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #879709
#46. When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #894889
#47. There's no such thing as a life free of complications, Rory. We all end up making compromises in the end.

Jojo Moyes

Rory's Quotes #896814
#48. In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.

Rory McCann

Rory's Quotes #913615
#49. People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #927312
#50. I'm a man's man. I go out climbing and live outdoors.

Rory McCann

Rory's Quotes #955519
#51. I love anywhere new and different. That's the fun of travel. I've always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy - sometimes in an Alfa Spider.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #1004257
#52. When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.

Rory Kennedy

Rory's Quotes #1023081
#53. Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.

Rory Kinnear

Rory's Quotes #1043646
#54. Paris is Rory without Lorelai's influence to draw her out of her books and into the wider world.

Jennifer Crusie

Rory's Quotes #1056809
#55. 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

Rory's Quotes #1063338
#56. Do things you don't want to do because it is the shortest, most guaranteed path to success: what you want in your life. It's not about getting a certain amount of money or a certain type of house, but what you want your life to look like.

Rory Vaden

Rory's Quotes #1086947
#57. I want you, Rory. I want you in a way that's different from the other women."-Ian

Sandi Lynn

Rory's Quotes #1109345
#58. When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #1127288
#59. How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He's been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #1127757
#60. I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, 'Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?' until I realized that's exactly what he was thinking.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #1145824
#61. The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #1161775
#62. Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #1171402
#63. Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Steven Moffat

Rory's Quotes #1183918
#64. As we walked past a quad bike chained to a farm gate, he remarked "It's such a pity how times have changed. You can't leave a piece of machinery out on the road any more." He seemed to have forgotten that he had just been describing a time when you couldn't leave you cattle out.

Rory Stewart

Rory's Quotes #1185895
#65. I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.

Rory McCann

Rory's Quotes #1187777
#66. If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #1194879
#67. 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

Rory's Quotes #1199864
#68. When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #1202468
#69. I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.

Rory Kinnear

Rory's Quotes #1218566
#70. The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.

Rory Miller

Rory's Quotes #1244572
#71. Rory is fun when he's pissed off: like a fluffy little attack gerbil.

Tana French

Rory's Quotes #1254052
#72. I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #1271514
#73. Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever

Rory Stewart

Rory's Quotes #1271698
#74. I recognize that losing is a part of growth in this sport and it's a positive thing in the long run.

Rory MacDonald

Rory's Quotes #1282922
#75. It's incredible, ridiculous really, isn't it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some people make in a lifetime.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #1291094
#76. I think it wasn't the Cirque du Soleil audition that was my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it's Rory.

Wendy S. Marcus

Rory's Quotes #1297018
#77. The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.

Rory Vaden

Rory's Quotes #1310087
#78. 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

Rory's Quotes #1347230
#79. It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time in three years, it's really nice.

Rory McIlroy

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#80. It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

Rory Kinnear

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#81. 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

Rory's Quotes #1386963
#82. It's what we are, you and I. SoulShares. Scair-anaim.

Rory Ni Coileain

Rory's Quotes #1388025
#83. I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Rory Bremner

Rory's Quotes #1402724
#84. 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

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#85. Yeah, it does. I don't know why, but it's sexy as hell." The

Rory Ni Coileain

Rory's Quotes #1425442
#86. I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #1436639
#87. You always get paid for how hard you work, but it's not always right away.

Rory Vaden

Rory's Quotes #1443644
#88. In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.

Rory Stewart

Rory's Quotes #1519549
#89. I'm not a snob ... there's room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don't just have to be one kind of actor.

Rory Kinnear

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#90. Read DeBecker's book.

Rory Miller

Rory's Quotes #1588668
#91. The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.

Rory Stewart

Rory's Quotes #1598508
#92. When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

Rory Stewart

Rory's Quotes #1615042
#93. I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.

Rory Kinnear

Rory's Quotes #1618379
#94. Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day.

Rory Stewart

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#95. Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

Rory Freedman

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#96. When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

Rory Kinnear

Rory's Quotes #1706335
#97. In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say.

Rory Dunlop

Rory's Quotes #1730601
#98. 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

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#99. I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

Rory McIlroy

Rory's Quotes #1773337
#100. I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.

Rory Bremner

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