R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rouw is een eindig proces, zeggen ze. Er overlijdt iemand, er verdwijnt iets (een verbintenis, een toeverlaat) en degene die achterblijft moet plaatsmaken voor de leegte. Maar hoe maak je plaats voor de leegte? Hoeveel ruimte neemt 'leegte' in?”
Source: De bakvis
“Roux flung a handful of dried shavings on to the embers of his fire; the scent was sharp and immediate, lemon grass and lavender, sage and applewood and pine, like the campfires of my childhood.”
Source: Peaches for Father Francis
“Roux seemed different here, more relaxed, outlined in fire as he supervised his cooking. I remember river crayfish, split and grilled over the embers, sardines, early corn, sweet potatoes, caramelized apples rolled in sugar and flash-fried in butter, thick pancakes, honey. We ate with our fingers from tin plates and drank cider and more of the spiced wine.”
Source: Chocolat
“Rovaniemen kirkossa, soikioissa sakastin seinällä on valokuvat kahdesta Isomaasta. Miehen parta leviää leukaa pitkin ja hajoaa kärjistä kuin tähtisumu, naisen nuttura on tiukalla, se muistuttaa kaktusta. Soikioiden välissä on tyhjää seinää, heidän vastakkain suunnatut katseensa kohtaavat sokeassa pisteessä, ja sieltä äitinikin on peräisin: hän ei nähnyt koskaan vanhempiensa suutelevan, eivätkä nämä omiensa, joten on oltava yksi ainoa piste jossa kaikki on odottanut ulostuloaan valmiina kuin kananpoika munassa, sokeana.”
Source: Todennäkyjä
“Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.”
Source: Tales from the Perilous Realm
“Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“Rovira, hay momentos en que un hombre tiene que encontrar los redaños y, mal que me esté decirlo, enseñarle al mundo que ha nacido para orinar de pie.”
Source: El laberinto de los espíritus
“Rovon said very seriously, looking into her eyes, "You never have to take a life, Riki. You always have a choice."
Archer folded his napkin. Almost picked a fight with his uncle. Almost walked out.
A choice?
Sometimes the choice was kill or die.”
Source: The Speaker
“Row after row with strict impunity
The headstones yield their names to the element,
The wind whirrs without recollection.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Row on [whatever happens].
[Lat., Vogue la galere.]”
“Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”
Source: A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994
“Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid.”
“Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride.”
Source: Empire of Storms
“Rowan grinned. "Come now, Your Excellency, there hasn't been a terrorist in hundreds of years. I'm just a janitor cleaning filth from dark corners.”
Source: Thunderhead
“Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.”
“Rowan Joffe was on top of everything. He knew exactly how he wanted everything to be, right down to the fact when I made those telephone calls, I didn't do it afterwards in a studio. I think that's how he operates. He likes it to be as real and as clear as possible.”
“Rowan moved deeper into the entry hall, every step laced with power and death, coming to a stop at her side. "You can call me Rowan. That's all you need to know." He cocked his head to the side, a predator assessing prey. "Thank you for the oil," he added. "My skin was a little dry.”
“Rowan Whitethorn is a legend. And so is his—what do you call them?”
“Cadre,” she said glumly.
“The six of them …” Aedion loosed a breath. “We used to tell stories about them around fires. Their battles and exploits and adventures.”
She sighed through her nose. “Please, please don’t ever tell him that. I’ll never hear the end of it, and he’ll use it in every argument we have.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox.”
“Rowdy Scientist Sonnet
Science is neither boastful nor bashful,
Science stands dutybound, forever mindful.
Science gives the final answer as a ray of hope,
With all avenues exhausted to the last granule.
Science is neither defensive nor offensive,
Science can't afford such primitive prerogative.
Transcending binary norms science acts whole,
Defying the comfort of all corrosive narrative.
Science is slave to none, science enslaves none,
Science blooms from reason, endorsing curiosity.
But don't ever confuse curiosity with cynicism,
Curiosity brings understanding, cynicism apathy.
Average scientists seek answers,
Great scientist seeks questions.
Submissive scientists chase solutions,
I'm a Rowdy Scientist, give me problems!”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I'll make a real go of it this time.”
“Rowen moved deeper into the entry hall, every step laced with power and death, coming to a stop at her side. "You can call me Rowan. That's all you need to know." He cocked his head to the side, a predator assessing prey. "Thank you for the oil," he added. "My skin was a little dry.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“Rowena Clark and I had met on the first day of our mixed media class. I’d sat down at her table and said, “Mind if I join you? Figure the best way to learn about art is to sit with a masterpiece.” Maybe I was in love, but I was still Adrian Ivashkov.
Rowena had fixed me with a flat look. “Let’s get one thing straight. I can see through crap a mile away, and I like girls, not guys, so if you can’t handle me telling you what’s what, then you’d better take your one-liners and hair gel somewhere else. I don’t go to this school to put up with pretty boys like you. I’m here to face dubious employment options with a painting degree and then go get a Guinness after class.”
I’d scooted my chair closer to the table. “You and I are going to get along just fine.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“Rowena had been just a normal girl back then. Running along with the dukes daughter on every merry chase. Huddling under makeshift forts when the rain drove them inside. Heads bowed together over books and papers on which they'd scratched treasure maps and poem and....
Magic —that's what it had been”
Source: The Reluctant Duchess
“Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy.”
Source: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine
“Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.”
“Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts”
“Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.”
“Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.”
“Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.”
“Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.”
“Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.”
“Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.”
“Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.”
Source: The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal
“Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he did not fling himself from Littlemouse's arms and go exploring. Which was not to say that he could not do so if he wished, because cats were also their own masters. He decided that his patience was practically legendary- which was fortunate...”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too. It was humbling to consider all these authors, struggling with this word or that phrase, recording their thoughts for people they'd never meet. In that same way, the detritus of the boxes was humbling - receipts, jotted notes, photos with no inscriptions, all of it once held together by the fabric of lives now finished, gone.”
Source: The Lake of Dreams
“Rowww!” Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didn’t appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her knives sliced through the metal like wet clay. Within seconds, the wrecking ball was reduced to a mound of scraps. Bast sheathed her blades. “Safe now.” “You saved us from a metal ball,” Sadie said. “You never know,” Bast said. “It could’ve been hostile.”
“Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.”
“ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast-- But I remain the same, up to the last! ROXANE: I have marred your life--I, I! CYRANO: You blessed my life! Never on me had rested woman's love. My mother even could not find me fair: I had no sister; and, when grown a man, I feared the mistress who would mock at me. But I have had your friendship--grace to you A woman's charm has passed across my path.”
“Roxanne came along in '86, when I was doing a lot of stand-up. I auditioned for the movie, and of course I was a huge Steve Martin fan, so I really hoped I would get this part. I don't think there was any part in particular that I auditioned for. I just went in and talked with them. There were so many parts in there, and so many comedians ended up getting in that movie, playing different firemen and townspeople.”
“Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.”
“Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.”
“Roxanne Stern is a dedicated educator currently serving as a Civics and Senior Projects Teacher and Team Lead for 12th-grade students in Denver. With a teaching career spanning seven years, she has developed a strong bond with her students and is passionate about their growth and development. Roxanne believes that teaching is one of the most important professions, with the power to address social issues and promote positive change.”
“Roxanne Stern is an experienced educator who has a long, successful history of working in the education management industry. With skills in non-profit organizations, event management, and fundraising, Roxanne Stern is a true asset to any education environment. She has many years of experience as a Senior Projects Advisor.”
“Roxie emanated this earthiness Mel found herself drawn to, and her low voice scraped like fingernails over skin, causing a delicious shudder.”
Source: Strength Check
“Roxie pasted a smile on her face, but inside, she yearned like she stood in a field staring at the distant stars above—longing, longing, longing.”
Source: Strength Check
“Roxie swallowed hard and headed to the kitchen, feeling the weight of that woman’s presence like a vulture tearing at the scraps that remained.”
Source: Strength Check
“Roxie swallowed hard. This was why she didn’t do emotional talks. Lilah’s words burrowed under her skin like a chestburster, leaving her raw and exposed in the aftermath.”
Source: Strength Check
“Roxy gave me a reason to keep moving—a purpose powerful enough to keep me off the couch.”
Source: On My Own Two Feet
“Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.”