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Robert Byrne Quotes

If you know a good player who is tempted by pool hustling, introduce him at once to a career guidance counselor, a psychotherapist, or a surgeon who does lobotomies.

Robert Byrne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1930 - 2016

Topics

Good You Career Pool Know Surgeon

I moved away when I was 17. It's been a mad journey, but I've met and made some incredible friends.

Jessie Buckley

Journey Friends Mad Been Incredible

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Maya Angelou

Mother Grateful Intelligence People

Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary.

Amber Valletta

Truth Courage Easy Always Up Takes

I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint.

Roger McGuinn

Day Motorcycle Every Day Go Solar

The only guest star I really wanted to get but didn't was Bruce Springsteen.

Mike Scully

Star Guest Get Only Wanted Really

I feel blessed that I was gifted.

Derek Walcott

Blessed Feel Gifted I Feel

Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions.

Courtney A. Kemp

Research Questions Enough You Write

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Constantin Brancusi

Eyes Water Think Reality Fish Body

I am a small-town girl.

Claire McCaskill

Girl I Am Small-Town Am

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

Bobby Flay

Food Me Restaurant Go Eat Percent

I am not as knowledgeable about the struggle for gay rights, for our history, the way some of my castmates or other gay men I know are.

Antoni Porowski

History Struggle Men I Am Gay Know

Congress should... at least keep pace with technological advances.

Suzan DelBene

Congress Technological Keep Pace