Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woma...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous co...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an ideali...
ROBERTSON DAVIES It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stol...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themse...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I wil...
ROBERTSON DAVIES A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learni...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
ROBERTSON DAVIES He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you...
ROBERTSON DAVIES What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
ROBERTSON DAVIES He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn thes...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not o...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppres...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for th...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret langua...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
ROBERTSON DAVIES There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets...
ROBERTSON DAVIES A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characte...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
ROBERTSON DAVIES A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
ROBERTSON DAVIES You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
ROBERTSON DAVIES I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the ideal...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest sur...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which...
ROBERTSON DAVIES If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all su...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
ROBERTSON DAVIES The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in une...
ROBERTSON DAVIES May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppres...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
ROBERTSON DAVIES I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been col...
ROBERTSON DAVIES If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
ROBERTSON DAVIES The love of truth lies at the root of much humor
ROBERTSON DAVIES Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it
ROBERTSON DAVIES The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to k...
ROBERTSON DAVIES There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cl...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...
ROBERTSON DAVIES One of the most difficult tasks for the educated and sophisticated mind is to recognize that some cl...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for th...
ROBERTSON DAVIES He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
ROBERTSON DAVIES A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The sh...
ROBERTSON DAVIES He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same s...
ROBERTSON DAVIES But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.
ROBERTSON DAVIES But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for wh...
ROBERTSON DAVIES When I had to leave she kissed me on both cheeks - a thing she had never done before - and said, 'Th...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded
ROBERTSON DAVIES Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
ROBERTSON DAVIES The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of m...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up
ROBERTSON DAVIES A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES ...I managed to make it clear that what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured m...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth cent...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Look at what I wrote at the beginning of this memoir. Have I caught anything at all of the extraordi...
ROBERTSON DAVIES —If Francis has really made up his soul [...], what lies ahead of him? Hasn't he achieved the grea...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be a...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Children, don’t speak so coarsely,’ said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervisi...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of tim...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduc...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possi...
ROBERTSON DAVIES She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which ca...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is...
ROBERTSON DAVIES All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corne...
ROBERTSON DAVIES It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don'...
OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
OSCAR ROBERTSON But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
OSCAR ROBERTSON We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit...
OSCAR ROBERTSON But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
OSCAR ROBERTSON You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or coll...
OSCAR ROBERTSON But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players wh...
OSCAR ROBERTSON Basketball is basketball.
OSCAR ROBERTSON You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot you...
OSCAR ROBERTSON Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
OSCAR ROBERTSON You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side pick...
OSCAR ROBERTSON When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing agains...
OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are...
OSCAR ROBERTSON When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do...
OSCAR ROBERTSON It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the co...
OSCAR ROBERTSON It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they co...
OSCAR ROBERTSON I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the y...
OSCAR ROBERTSON I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
PAT ROBERTSON I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United State...
PAT ROBERTSON But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga...
PAT ROBERTSON God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what G...
PAT ROBERTSON In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
PAT ROBERTSON It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
PAT ROBERTSON I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
PAT ROBERTSON Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political s...
PAT ROBERTSON I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned ...
PAT ROBERTSON The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christ...
PAT ROBERTSON The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from...
PAT ROBERTSON I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the...
PAT ROBERTSON It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of...
PAT ROBERTSON I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's n...
PAT ROBERTSON Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy...
PAT ROBERTSON The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ beca...
PAT ROBERTSON Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help peop...
PAT ROBERTSON People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
PAT ROBERTSON I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The paro...
PAT ROBERTSON Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...
PAT ROBERTSON I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
PAT ROBERTSON My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don...
PHIL ROBERTSON The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi He...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the k...
KAY ROBERTSON Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would sup...
SI ROBERTSON If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming fles...
PHIL ROBERTSON Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and peopl...
DALE ROBERTSON An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himse...
DALE ROBERTSON Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosex...
PHIL ROBERTSON When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an ev...
SI ROBERTSON Music should never be harmless.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.
JEANNE ROBERTSON "How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Sa...
PAT ROBERTSON Feminism is the radical notion that women are people
PAT ROBERTSON What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on som...
SI ROBERTSON I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, le...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things...
PAT ROBERTSON When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big,...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hu...
PHIL ROBERTSON I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all creat...
PHIL ROBERTSON It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
SI ROBERTSON Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because i...
PHIL ROBERTSON Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America...
PAT ROBERTSON Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
PAT ROBERTSON I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character act...
BRITT ROBERTSON People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON Some years later, Zeus and Hera were arguing about who got more pleasure from sex: men or women. To ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON Sense is nonsense to a fool.
ROBIN ROBERTSON What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the r...
ROBIN ROBERTSON I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck an...
PHIL ROBERTSON You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's ...
BRITT ROBERTSON It's about 50 percent more fuel-efficient than vehicles of today. It's totally clean. Absolutely zer...
BERNARD ROBERTSON We make no attempt to try to run the vehicle on the electric motor,
BERNARD ROBERTSON People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy, ... The way to get this car to market is to make trad...
BERNARD ROBERTSON People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy. The way to get this car to market is to make trade-of...
BERNARD ROBERTSON Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday. I don't have any further comment to make.
BERNARD ROBERTSON Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
PAT ROBERTSON Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs...
BETH ROBERTSON After 9/11, families were looking for things to do together and fun that was closer to home, and tha...
BETH ROBERTSON There are a lot of things in motion that will contribute to more bills being presented electronicall...
BETH ROBERTSON One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.
BETH ROBERTSON At this point, the market isn't that developed yet. Ten percent of all consumer bills will be presen...
BETH ROBERTSON It was great, a fabulous year. It was different than any other market I've been through in 36 years....
BETH ROBERTSON Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs...
BETH ROBERTSON I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how ...
BRITT ROBERTSON I'm just really happy I can be a part of this.
ANN ROBERTSON That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.
ANN ROBERTSON They were there more to control the city rather than rescue anyone.
ANN ROBERTSON It's like we kind of screwed up.
ANN ROBERTSON We learned a lot about ourselves today. There were a lot of positives that came out of today, and we...
AMY ROBERTSON Our goal for both field hockey camps is to challenge the participants and to make sure that they hav...
AMY ROBERTSON This is the best all-around field hockey class we have ever signed at Indiana. They possess a high l...
AMY ROBERTSON