Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.
ROY ACUFF I’m going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got he...
ROY ACUFF Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.
ROY ACUFF I think we got too much sleep.
ROY ACUFF Turn loose and have fun. Give the audience a show.
ROY ACUFF I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.
ROY ACUFF Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.
ROY ACUFF Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.
ROY ACUFF I’m going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles...
ROY ACUFF There were people coming in here from New York, California, Chicago, all different places that had p...
ROY ACUFF The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennesse...
ROY ACUFF I’m going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got her...
ROY ACUFF There is life outside the high-tech.
MARSHALL ACUFF The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'...
MARSHALL ACUFF The market is on inflation watch.
MARSHALL ACUFF The reality is that as we enter the new year, the big caps continue to dominate the market as they h...
MARSHALL ACUFF The market continues to be uncertain about the underlying leadership after many years of being used ...
MARSHALL ACUFF You are seeing a broadening out of the market that we had not seen going from the 9,000 to 10,000 ma...
MARSHALL ACUFF It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all...
MARSHALL ACUFF It's not clear that the Fed is going to move in June. Perhaps, the Fed moves late summer/early fall,...
MARSHALL ACUFF This market is on a roll. As long as we have an environment of slow growth, low inflation, low inter...
MARSHALL ACUFF Now reality is beginning to sink in -- that Asia is basically a long-term workout. I really don't se...
MARSHALL ACUFF I'm really lucky to be here today and to get eighth-place, ... I'm one wheel short on the cart this ...
AMY ACUFF It's no fun to show up wearing the same [outfit] as the other competitors.
AMY ACUFF He is the glue to that team. He is just a guy that does everything well. I told our guys that Holt m...
LENNIE ACUFF We shoot 48.9 percent from the field, 50 percent from 3-point range, 86.7 percent from the line and ...
LENNIE ACUFF People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.
JON ACUFF Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.
JON ACUFF Jason Smith is an awfully good player. He's a mentally tough kid, and we believe in him.
LENNIE ACUFF I'm not sure that we're going to see the market run straight up as it seemed to be doing in the firs...
MARSHALL ACUFF Unfortunately, earnings growth expectations are still too high. We continue to learn about that.
MARSHALL ACUFF Every Dog has a day and every human has a life. It all depends on what you want to be. The strange t...
ROY Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like th...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and...
BUNKER ROY Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
ARUNDHATI ROY Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's tru...
ARUNDHATI ROY Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here a...
ROY BEAN Hang 'em first, try 'em later.
ROY BEAN And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin'...
ROY BEAN I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
ROY BEAN Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
ROY BEAN The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see ...
ROY HORN I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team t...
PATRICK ROY A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm r...
PATRICK ROY I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to he...
PATRICK ROY He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
PATRICK ROY My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
PATRICK ROY I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
RACHEL ROY I have always admired the way women put outfits together.
RACHEL ROY I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
RACHEL ROY I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confid...
RACHEL ROY I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows th...
RACHEL ROY If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to fe...
RACHEL ROY I believe clothing tell a story.
RACHEL ROY I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings...
RACHEL ROY You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't f...
RACHEL ROY Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and lo...
RACHEL ROY I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really w...
RACHEL ROY I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds...
RACHEL ROY As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
RACHEL ROY I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one t...
RACHEL ROY If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
RACHEL ROY When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
RACHEL ROY I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
RACHEL ROY I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people...
RACHEL ROY At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative wo...
RACHEL ROY Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spe...
RACHEL ROY There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything ...
RACHEL ROY I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my...
RACHEL ROY I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
RACHEL ROY Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
ROY ORBISON Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt...
ROY HARPER At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.

Buil...
ARUNDHATI ROY I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's h...
ROY ORBISON One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
GABRIELLE ROY The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his j...
GABRIELLE ROY My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay...
GABRIELLE ROY Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shoul...
ARUNDHATI ROY In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
ROY HATTERSLEY It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...
ARUNDHATI ROY Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranqu...
ARUNDHATI ROY Electricity produced in the name of the poor is consumed by the rich with endless appetites,
ARUNDHATI ROY I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see...
ARUNDHATI ROY The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we ca...
ARUNDHATI ROY Why not have your nuclear bombs in your briefcase? All of these policies that America upholds, nucle...
ARUNDHATI ROY Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse ...
ARUNDHATI ROY The NBA for the last 20 years approached every single institutional democratic body.
ARUNDHATI ROY Another religion turned against itself, another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by ...
ARUNDHATI ROY You would remember in October 2000 the court had given its judgement, it had told the government giv...
ARUNDHATI ROY Refuse to wave the flag Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse to the dock.
ARUNDHATI ROY 10 million people marched against the war on 5 continents in the most united opposition to war ever ...
ARUNDHATI ROY Bring to a boil Add oil Then bomb Ms Roy is author of the God of Small Things.
ARUNDHATI ROY The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.
ARUNDHATI ROY But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone...
ARUNDHATI ROY If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
ARUNDHATI ROY When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them wor...
ROY BENNETT Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.
ROY BENNETT Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui...
ROY BENNETT ...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the on...
ARUNDHATI ROY Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
ROY BENNETT Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and ...
ROY BENNETT Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
ROY BENNETT To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.
ROY BENNETT Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
ROY BENNETT People are successful because they think and act like successful people.
ROY BENNETT Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
ROY BENNETT Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
ROY BENNETT When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes an...
ROY BENNETT We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses...
ROY BENNETT If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your c...
ROY BENNETT Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Y...
ROY BENNETT There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, ne...
ROY BENNETT The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.
ROY BENNETT Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happie...
ROY BENNETT Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
ROY HATTERSLEY I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It i...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be underst...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
ROY THOMPSON An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to c...
ROY ASH It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
ROY DISNEY The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims...
ROY HATTERSLEY Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.
ROY ROGERS I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too...
ROY CAMPANELLA In light of activists' global boycotts of war profiteers, globalization begins to look evitable. We ...
ARUNDHATI ROY Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
ROY BENNETT Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
ROY BENNETT Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others�...
ROY BENNETT If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others whereve...
ROY BENNETT A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.
ROY BENNETT Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
ROY BENNETT Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
ROY BENNETT The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, th...
ROY MOORE Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds o...
ROY ROMER Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
ROY MOORE I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunatel...
ARUNDHATI ROY We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to ...
ROY BARNES It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.
ROY MOORE And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with sno...
ROY BEAN Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their m...
ROY AYERS I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.
ROY AYERS I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
ROY AYERS I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores,...
ROY AYERS I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would qu...
ROY AYERS I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.
ROY AYERS Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. ...
ROY AYERS A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
ROY AYERS You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.
ROY AYERS I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
ROY AYERS Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. ...
ROY AYERS I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci ...
ROY AYERS I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
ROY AYERS Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that t...
ROY AYERS Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about trip...
ROY AYERS Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.
ROY AYERS I think music all the time.
ROY AYERS I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I...
ROY AYERS I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not ...
ROY AYERS DJs and people in the street know what they like.
ROY AYERS It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.
ROY AYERS What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African ...
ROY AYERS I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.
ROY AYERS Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
ROY AYERS I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
ROY AYERS The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, ar...
ROY AYERS Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.
ROY BARNES Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and...
ARUNDHATI ROY There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the peo...
ROY BENNETT I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
ROY KEANE If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every...
RACHEL ROY Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good thing...
DEEP ROY I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce r...
ROY BLUNT I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacula...
ROY HALLADAY You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven i...
ROY BEAN The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised s...
ROY JENKINS The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian...
ARUNDHATI ROY I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN It was great to finally get it, because I heard most of the guys already got it who were on other te...
ANDRE ROY Sometimes it's hard to get going because it's early, but I think once you're in the warm-up, you're ...
ANDRE ROY That's how we did it when we were kids, outdoors on the pond or whatever.
ANDRE ROY It's good now to keep a positive attitude and have fun.
ANDRE ROY Obviously, he's the star player on our team. Wherever he goes, he's an attraction. Teams, I think, a...
ANDRE ROY I had to do something. (Neil) said, 'Your guys are running our guys.' I told him, in the playoffs, t...
ANDRE ROY I tried to go backhand and maybe I got hooked. I just kind of tried to go backhand and it just slid ...
ANDRE ROY I just went on the ice and drove the net. I don't know if I was hooked, but I tried to go back and i...
ANDRE ROY I've been on teams like Ottawa and Tampa Bay, and when we played the last place team we'd think, all...
ANDRE ROY Tomas did a good job sticking up for Sid, and it's good to see the guys stick up like that.
ANDRE ROY He was shot at by his real brother just at the entrance of his residence.
AN ROY We have found spare parts for an IED but the materials were as yet unassembled.
AN ROY If left untouched, nothing may have happened. The explosive material has been sent for testing.
AN ROY It's for all to see that stern police activity has curbed crimes.
AN ROY We are likely to convene a meeting of officials of RBI and banking institutions to convey our securi...
AN ROY We will act in an unbiased manner and take whatever action necessary.
AN ROY Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings ...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be underst...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.
ROY EVANS