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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Man Child Play Changes Fiction

I won't ski in the backcountry the day after a big storm anymore. The mountains are so humbling. As soon as you think you're on top or crushing it, that's when you need to be really careful.

Day Mountains Storm Think You Top

Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.

Good Time Parents Always CEOs

One of the reasons I moved back to Brooklyn is to get to hang out with the guys I've known since we were 12, 13 years old. Having that sense of community is incredibly important to me.

Community Me Back Brooklyn Important

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Tradition Hobby Nice Become Like

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Dress Mask Clothes Go Sometimes Out

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

Live New York Me Drive I Can New

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.

War People Democracy Fighting You

It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.

Johnny Van Zant

Myself Me World Believe Someone Try

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Passion Trying You Own Atmosphere

TV loves to bring in affairs - as soon as you have a relationship, let's screw it up.

Relationship You Up Bring Soon TV

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Health Child World Care Three Take

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

Strong America Country Focused Need

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