#tin

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#buck #chief #chief executive #department #executive

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#age #around #because #coming #end

It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get. ↗

— Brande Roderick

#been #comfortable #fact #gay #get

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#any #artist #beautiful #because #book

All things just keep getting better. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#better #getting #getting better #just #keep

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#dictates #everything #good #good thing #marketing

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#writing #art

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#could #directing #discuss #doing #glad

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#buck #care #cares #every #exploiting

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#exciting #future #gonna #i #i can