#robert

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance ↗

— Robert Walser

#life #nothingness #robert-walser #silence #tired

Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one. ↗

— Robert Frost

#poetry #poets #quotes #robert-frost #life

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. ↗

— Robert Graves

#claudius #emperor #robert-graves #roman #roman

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#could #duran #guys #i #like

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#certain #dupe #face #fool #i

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#arrogance #his #insensitivity #leaves #once

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#case #critics #decline #identify #labor

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert. ↗

— Alain Robert

#also #am #completely #feel #i

Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#being #brutal #each #enough #game

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#always #before #camera #ever #got