Roger famous quotes

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
-- Alan Shepard

#Airplane #Roger #Clock

There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw
-- Andre Agassi

#Mean #Thinking #Roger

After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.
-- Andrew Dickson White

#Catholic #Half #Roger

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.
-- Anna Russell

#Women #Two #Roger

I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.
-- Anthony Braxton

#Teenager #Guy #Roger

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
-- Barry McGuire

#Next Steps #Roger #Influence

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
-- Bill Shankly

#Missing #Roger #Hunts

Roger Federer is stylish.
-- Bjorn Borg

#Roger #Stylish

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.
-- Bum Phillips

#Daylight #Roger

Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.
-- Byron Nelson

#Golf #Roger #Four

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.
-- Charles Duke

#Beautiful #Roger #Tranquility

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.
-- Charles Duke

#World #Roger #Rooms

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.
-- Damon Runyon

#Heart #America #Roger

I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.
-- Dan Rooney

#Doubt #Roger #Said

We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything.
-- David Talbot

#Upgrading #Roger #Rating

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation
-- David Willetts

#Men #Roger #Great Men

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.
-- Doug Davidson

#Player #Tennis #Roger

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.
-- Eddie Murphy

#Decision #Thumbs #Roger

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.
-- Felicia Day

#Community #Roger #My Favorite

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
-- Freddie Mercury

#Night #Might #Roger

Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.
-- Gael Monfils

#Errors #Roger #Today

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
-- Gene Kelly

#Dance #Men #Roger

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'
-- George Steinbrenner

#Oscars #Roger #Economy

Brave? Or stupid?" Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.
-- Gerald Morris

#Stupid #Brave #Roger

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
-- Glen Campbell

#Roger #Used #Jokes

I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as the 'Will Rogers' of the Church, and told the congregation that he was a great humorist. When he got up he said, 'You know, I think the Lord himself likes a joke. If he didn't, he wouldn't have made some of you folks!
-- Hugh B. Brown

#Thinking #Church #Roger

I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.
-- Ines de La Fressange

#Office #India #Roger

This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—" “Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one.
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Years #Twelve #Roger

Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.
-- Jim Lehrer

#Mistake #Drug #Roger

Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.
-- Jim Lehrer

#Roger #Let Me #Clear

In the modern game, you’re a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist ... or you’re Roger Federer.
-- Jimmy Connors

#Games #Roger #Clay

If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.
-- John McEnroe

#Player #Games #Roger

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
-- John Sayles

#Writing #Roger #Next

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
-- John Sayles

#Giving #Good Movie #Roger

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.
-- Joseph Addison

#Fall #Winter #Roger

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
-- Laura Bell Bundy

#Littles #Roger #Crystals

I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.
-- Lleyton Hewitt

#Winning #Focus #Roger

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.
-- Marat Safin

#Player #World #Roger

I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,
-- Matthew Freud

#Mean #Media #Roger

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
-- Mickey Mantle

#Sports #Men #Roger

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
-- Mickey Mantle

#Baseball #Guy #Roger

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
-- Mickey Mantle

#People #Roger

Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.
-- Mindy McCready

#Long #Roger

Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.
-- Mindy McCready

#Princess #Men #Roger

I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.
-- Mindy McCready

#Roger #Wanted

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.
-- Neil Innes

#Crazy #Roger #Robots

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
-- Neil Innes

#Roger #Venues

The only guys I like watching these days are Roger Gracie, Marcelo Garcia, Kron and a few others. Those guys finish and go for submissions. They don't hold the sleeves and stall for ten minutes.
-- Relson Gracie

#Guy #Roger #Submission

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.
-- Robert Wyatt

#Important #Roger #Band

Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind,
-- Rod Laver

#Roger #Nadal #Being The Best

My hero is Roger Federer.
-- Saina Nehwal

#Hero #Roger #My Hero

I am really close friends with Roger Federer and also with Benoit Paire.
-- Stan Wawrinka

#Roger #Close Friends

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.
-- Steve Kanaly

#Television #Roger #Film

I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.
-- Steven Adler

#Moon #Keith #Roger

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
-- Terry Southern

#Roger

I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.
-- Timur Bekmambetov

#Secret #Roger #Looks

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
-- Tina Turner

#Song #Roger #Easy

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
-- Val Guest

#Fun #Roger #Actors

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.
-- Walter Johnson

#Saws #Pitching #Roger

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
-- Willard Scott

#Hero #Roger #And Love

I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.
-- William Butler Yeats

#Roger #Killing #Gallows

I feel like I'm a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking. I went and visited Roger on the set of Dinoshark and that's in the movie. That's where I really got a big whopping taste of what it's like to be on one of his sets.
-- Alex Stapleton

#School #Roger #Taste

I certainly wasn’t Roger Deakins, but I felt like I could be.
-- Elle Schneider

#Roger #Felt

Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood.
-- Joseph Losey

#Red #Hollywood #Roger

Cameron Rogers writes like a magician.
-- K. J. Bishop

#Writing #Roger #Magician

One was Donald Trump said he didn't think Megyn Kelly had been fair to him. But he also talked about Fox's response to this. And multiple sources have said that this was authored by Roger Ailes himself.
-- Ryan Grim

#Thinking #Roger #Foxes

I naively thought I was making a low-budget movie. But, when the film came out, the Daily Variety reviewer at that time who was named Art Murphy described it as an exploitation film. I had never heard that term before. Roger never used it. So that's how I learned that I had made an exploitation film.
-- Stephanie Rothman

#Art #Roger #Film

Roger “Hurricane” Wilson is the real deal!
-- Walter Trout

#Real #Roger #Hurricanes

Roger Ailes said, we learned from a secret back channel that the ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president.
-- Michel Martin

#Secret #President #Roger

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!
-- Roger Corman

#Roger #Said #Know How

I certainly wasn’t Roger Deakins, but I felt like I could be.
-- Elle Schneider

#Roger #Felt