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Roger Ebert Quotes

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Roger Ebert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013

Topics

Life Experience People Now Talk

Governor Romney is a good debater.

Jim Talent

Good Governor Romney Governor Romney

It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was going to be a political movie, and I thought we might even have a hassle. But the director simplified it to brutality and bad taste.

Jim Brown

Sun Thought Political Bad Dark Even

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

Maurice Ravel

Work Great Best I Am Worst Quantity

We have a good relationship, but she is completely different than me. My sister, she is not sporty at all.

Angelique Kerber

Good Relationship Me Sister She

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Andy Rooney

Teacher People Rest End Remember Up

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

People Terrorism Who Pakistan Jobs

Some things hit close to home with people, and it's going to be hard to tell someone who lost somebody on 9/11 that a 9/11 joke is funny.

Michael Che

Funny Home People Someone Lost Hard

The people at MTV are encouraged to be very confrontational and declarative about their tastes.

John Seabrook

People MTV Very About Tastes

I focus on what I can do in this game. I don't have speed. I'm not a guy who can have a stolen base. I wish I could, but I can't.

Miguel Cabrera

Focus Game Wish Speed I Can I Wish

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

Michael Shermer

Food Intelligence Language Animals

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

Minnie Pearl

Door Appearance Down Pictures Off

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chinua Achebe

Today Space People Remember You