Rough Riders Quotes

#1. The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.

Douglas Brinkley

#2. I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.

Tom Berenger

#3. With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.

Douglas Brinkley

#4. Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

Tom Berenger

#5. I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

Tom Berenger

#6. Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the court world by asking to be sent to the front, instead of begging for a post in attendance on the Tsar's person.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person.
~ Merlyn

T.H. White

#8. If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Anish Kapoor

#9. Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

Grace Hopper

#10. Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.

Dalai Lama

#12. That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

Garrison Keillor

#13. For her, true happiness means you, Warden.

Jay McLean

#14. I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.

Antonin Artaud

#15. She'd rather be anonymous in a big city than infamous in a small town.

Lorelei James

#16. When we separate our artistic activity from daily life, we cut ourselves off from our most valuable creative resource. However, if we live life as an art form in itself, we have available to us all that we experience and see.

Brenda Tharp

#17. You have me, Joe! You've always had me.

R.L. Mathewson

#18. If you feel you can't trust anyone, then try trusting in yourself.

Hyde

#19. People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter