Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.


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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST
The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES
For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM
Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM
On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...
ROBERT FULGHUM
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
ROBERT FULGHUM
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
ROBERT FULGHUM
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for...
ROBERT FULGHUM
'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends...
ROBERT FULGHUM
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold h...
ROBERT FULGHUM
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
ROBERT FULGHUM
'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.
ROBERT FULGHUM
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem...
ROBERT FULGHUM
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more w...
ROBERT FULGHUM
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the la...
ROBERT FULGHUM
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and t...
ROBERT FULGHUM
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
ROBERT FULGHUM
All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.
ROBERT FULGHUM
The examined life is no picnic.
ROBERT FULGHUM
Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
ROBERT FULGHUM
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible co...
ROBERT FULGHUM