John Roberts Quotes

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

John Roberts

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 27, 1955

Topics

DayMeBuildingRestRememberHouse

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

Jimmy Connors

LifeStoryMy LifeKnowWhyReal

My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.

Jill Paton Walsh

GreatMeRememberI CanGrandfather

I think the 'New York Times' would rather be offended than dead.

Jesse Watters

New YorkThinkNewOffendedDead

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

John Cameron Mitchell

StarsRockFirstLittleArtists

When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very 'tomboy' at the time, I wasn't interested. But then I had a bit of teenage rebellion, and I saw modeling as an opportunity to get away from school and parents, so I thought, 'OK, maybe I will be a model.'

Suki Waterhouse

OpportunityTimeSchoolParentsWill

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.

Siri Hustvedt

FamilyHistoryLiteratureEmotions

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

Tom Wesselmann

WorkPeopleCareSayNothingMatter

I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.

Ross Levinsohn

TryOverYearsGetDealOne Thing

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

Rowan Williams

TodayMoreWellThanEverMicrocosm

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Mitch Daniels

ExperiencePainGovernmentSuffering

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

Louie Gohmert

FutureGodFeelHelpPrepareThings

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Joyce Meyer

InfluenceControlDevilTargetEnemy

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