Roger Quotes - Page 2

• One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Jesus, Eye

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.94, Multnomah

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• Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.

  Martin Filler

  Cutting, Museums, Government

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• My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

  Felicia Day

  Community, My Favorite, Episodes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.

  Michael Zaslow

  Sorry, Snakes, Mad

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• I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

  Steve Kanaly

  Television, Film, Wayne

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• If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Ailes who will go after youThe person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen, trust me.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Doors, Forever, One Day

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• He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

  Damon Runyon

  Heart, America, Humanitarian

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• Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from ignorance as to how to have good prostate health. That someone is Roger Mason, and all that one needs to know in order to have a happy prostate has been distilled down into this one book. I would stake the health of my prostate on it, and can tell you as a prostate cancer survivor; it is the ONLY way to go.

  Dirk Benedict

  Cancer, Book, Taken

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• Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.

  Wilfrid Hyde-White

  Children, Believe, Bucks

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• There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

  Anna Russell

  Women, Two, Bears

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• Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

  Alan Shepard

  Airplane, Aviation, Clock

  Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, People

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• When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

  Gene Kelly

  Motivational, Dance, Men

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• If you ask Jim Courier, I mean, that guy has his tongue up (Roger Federer's) ass, I think...you know, the whole time when you actually listen to him commentating or listen to him talk about Roger Federer. Sometimes makes me sick almost.

  Tommy Haas

  Mean, Thinking, Sick

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• Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Four, Tees

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• While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of 'Flying Down to Rio' and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.

  Ginger Rogers

  Flying, Trying, Together

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  Robert Wyatt

  Important, Band, Contribution

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• What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

  James Wolcott

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

  Tina Turner

  Song, Easy, Should

  "After 5-year break, Tina is still simply the best". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. February 2, 2005.

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• I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

  Travis Tritt

  Dog, Writing, House

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• For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

  Pete Townshend

  Letting Go, Heart, Ideas

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• I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

  Sharon Stone

  Movie, Song, Real

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• I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

  Joel Silver

  Thinking, Voice, Years

  "2nd Joel Silver Interview NINJA ASSASSIN. Plus Info on Dark Castle Projects, Remakes, SHERLOCK HOLMES, More". Roundtable interview, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

  John Sayles

  Giving, Good Movie, Scripts

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• If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

  John Sayles

  Writing, Next Day, Saws

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