Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894

Topics

NatureBeautyQualityMenTreesAir

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.

John Dickerson

BestFocusCreativityWiseChoice

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

DeathManStoryTragedyNowHigh

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Matthew Tobin Anderson

BookWhyWriteAdultTeenagers

I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.

Michael Cerveris

NeverAlwaysBigGotFan

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Sophocles

ImpossibleSpeakNoble

I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

ThinkEveryoneCEOWants

Why is it that the producers can do anything and get away with it, and the actors are held accountable for everything? The makers often stop actors' payments, too. Everything is in their favour in the contract.

Shilpa Shinde

StopWhyEverythingAnythingGet

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

Tony Curtis

GirlSonDaughterGreatLosing

Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.

Roger Ailes

YearNewsThreeFourMajorPer

The people who can save this party are Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or John Kasich.

Mitt Romney

PeoplePartyWhoSaveJohnCruz

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.

Louise Erdrich

TreeStepLongTouchWearGoing

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Susan B. Anthony

GoodWomanManEnoughWithoutHer

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