Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveGivingYouLovingNeverGive

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Jim Carrey

LearningThinkLearnInterestingYou

I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

Joe Cocker

BeatUsedKeepSlapHip

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

Joel C. Rosenberg

WorldLivingBrinkApocalypseAsleep

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

Anish Kapoor

HopeArtGameLongArtistBeing

I totally respect fraternities.

Trevor Jackson

RespectTotally

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

Robert Atkins

YouBadBad GuySeeGuy

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

Roger Angell

MeSomeoneYouTellUpBecause

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.

RuPaul

LifeLoveBusinessPeopleLove Life

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

Mickey Rourke

TimeLunchMakeupYouDoneDrains

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

Liza Minnelli

PeopleMeSingingUpPianoWell

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.

Joseph Pulitzer

PerformanceBetterCheapPromise

In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

Dennis L. McKiernan

EngineeringBetterEnjoyCareerBell

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