From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.


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ROGER MCGOUGH
Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don't droop, because droopy ...
ROGER STONE
Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victim...
ROGER STONE
Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE
The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
ROGER REES
For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's...
ROGER BACON
I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE
Men play the game; women know the score
ROGER WODDIS
Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
ROGER STONE
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do...
ROGER BIRKMAN
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam...
ROGER STONE
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
ROGER PENROSE
Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
ROGER PENROSE
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is h...
ROGER WICKER
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethi...
ROGER WICKER
What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
ROGER SPERRY
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
ROGER ASCHAM
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER
The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question ab...
ROGER WICKER
So you think you can tell heaven from hell - blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a...
ROGER WATERS
It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
ROGER WICKER
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
ROGER ZELAZNY
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
JOHN ROGER
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
ROGER STARR
The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republi...
ROGER STONE
I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.
ROGER STONE
I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS
Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket squ...
ROGER STONE
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable...
ROGER L'ESTRANGE
Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employe...
ROGER SMITH
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
ROGER ASCHAM
By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year th...
ROGER ASCHAM
Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
ROGER LEWIN
The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew ex...
ROGER BANNISTER
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...
ROGER ZELAZNY
You win not by chance, but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS