#robert

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few

When I go to a restaurant and they say, 'We're fully booked,' I say, 'It's Roberto Cavalli,' and they say, 'I will check'. I love it! ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#check #fully #go #i #i love

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#abraham lincoln #bought #freed #lincoln #lodge

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#i #johnson #know #personally #robert

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#every #period #reader #robert #sf

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#doing #each #example #for example #i

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#also #altman #bases #because #covers

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#activist #agenda #ahead #hard #ideological

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#confident #decision #feel #i #i feel

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations