#poke

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough. ↗

— Anne Rice

#dickens #enough #everyone #him #his

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#i #into #just #last #last time

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#earnest #earnestly #ever #failure #freely

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#baseball #game #like #losing #nobody

My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#away #back #content #get #going

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#been #forms #hold #i #other

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#give #holds #life #nickname #poker

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#career #comedian #did #got #great

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived. ↗

— Ray Romano

#family values #i #perceived #spokesman #standup

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#breach #called #confidence #down #empire