J. M. Roberts Quotations

One of my favorites is The Sound of Music. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.

On the eve of the strike, we saw very, very poor performance.

NBA people want to see versatility, ... That was one of the things I talked about with coach, just stepping out toward the perimeter more. Rebounding is a great skill, and not too many people realize how hard it is to pull down 10-plus per game for your career -- so that can't go away. The main thing for me is stepping out more, while still taking advantage of my rebounding ability.

Nine wonderful years on Everybody Loves Raymond and to finish it off with this is wonderful.

Nobody cooks at home like they cook in restaurants; they'd all be dead, ... Home cooking is not trendy at all. French cooking really consists of some few hundred recipes handed down. Everyone has a little twist on what is a classic recipe.

My guys tried hard. I told them in the locker room it does hurt but that means we're playing games that mean something. Until you get to where you want to be at the top you have to go through some of this. It should hurt and it does hurt.

Lifting weights was important to us because we've been lifting since eighth grade. We both did track in high school and college, and volleyball.

One fundraiser by the Quartermaster Lions Club is the sale of White Canes, to help pay for needed eye exams and glasses for underprivileged children and adults.

Obviously, it makes it a lot more interesting,

My girlfriend has a smaller car, if it wasn't for her I probably wouldn't be able to make it to school.

If we hadn't done anything, we would be $70 million in the hole.

When we set high expectations for people we usually get disappointed and set them up for failure, it is best to accept them as they are and encourage them to reach their full potential.

When you call his name, he does open his eyes. Occasionally he turns his head.

We're concentrating on St. John's and what we're trying to do to build our program. We're trying to get our guys to play at the top level, and we're moving in that direction.

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day. I think it's essential that librarians accentuate reading for pleasure and have a solid understanding, respect, even affection for popular fiction.

She is very athletic, has great hands, is pretty skilled and she has a great work ethic. She doesn't take a possession off.

She only knows headfirst. Shelley knows one way to play, and that's full speed.

She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time.

She could do things on beam that I had no name for. As a third-year coach, I had visions of grandeur, thoughts of state championships dancing before me. I couldn't wait to work with someone at that level.

Magazines tell you you should be a size zero. Excuse me I don't want to be a zero about anything.

So it is probably less important to do preventive health and find a cancer early or risk factors -- than it is to make sure the patients don't already have problems that could lead to sudden incapacitation.

Scott didn't have a good day on the greens today. If he did, I probably don't win the golf tournament.

She's just funny about accolades, ... She would say, 'I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.'

She said we got to get his name off the title.

She took care of the family and that made him able to do his job.

She worked very hard to get the support and the money so these organizations could function, ... She impressed me the first time I ever met her.

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

I have a problem asking shareholders to vote for someone who has no intention of serving a full term. If I thought the search would take more than a year, that would be another situation.

Hang in there, all of you out on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan or on aboard ships in the middle of the ocean.

I would think that would be a fair representation,

Given the importance of the election and the fact that the present margin is approximately 300 votes in the state, I believe the people of Palm Beach County have entrusted us with the power to voice their right to participate in their government.

I feel like they are starting from scratch again, 10 steps backwards.

I am confident that whatever testing is performed on these items, it will substantiate that Mr. Westfall has done nothing wrong and is in no way responsible for Ms. Jones' disappearance. Mr. Westfall and his family ... continue to pray for Ms. Jones' safe return.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

If a book's moving well, or I was interrupted over six million times through the day, I'll usually go back and write for another hour or two.

Give Villanova credit, they're a terrific team. They (made) some big-time plays.

If all you have to offer is a look that is suppose to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

I fall apart. It's hard. The hardest part is hearing it on the news and then we have to wait.

I give a lot of credit to Coach (Jerry) Farber and his team. They were extremely ready to play tonight. This is a team that is going to cause people fits.

I have a 4-month-old baby boy. My baby's mom doesn't have any health insurance. If there's something wrong, I'm going to be in the hole.

I don't care if they take it (the computer) because there's nothing illegal on it,

But that noose is tightening as well, as is the noose in regards to Saddam Hussein,

I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace.

I look forward to working with Mike and the AT&T Broadband team to achieve the full potential of this tremendous new company,

He was a junior, I was a senior,

I always thought of the waterfront as a quiet area, but the folk festival really changes that. They renovate the waterfront every year. It just keeps getting nicer.

I always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps to argue a case before the court.

He was a monster on the glass. He was just big. The neat thing to see about Jeff is he has gotten to the point where I think he wants to try and get every rebound. And that's pretty rare for a high school kid.

He had a slender nose. He had very slim features.

Historically, the consumer has been subsidized by business users. Unfortunately, with the deregulation of this industry, the consumers are going to pay more regardless of this merger. It's already in the cards.

He's been pretty consistent. He's very active away from the ball, and very aggressive to the glass.

He's just so smooth and so fluid. He can just lull you to sleep at times.

He's a likeable guy. I never had a problem with him until this happened. But about a year go, he got these animals and they were crapping all over my driveway and my yard and we were tracking it in the house. I asked him to please keep them on his land, but they kept coming over.

He's going to get evaluated, get it looked at and they'll see what they should do. He tried to fight through some of the discomfort and everything. Me and his family got together and we decided this would be the best thing to do at this time.

Helping to find jobs, counseling, whatever we can offer, because there's all different kinds of people here who want to give of their services or their homes, who may or may not have already given money or of their time, or clothing or whatever. So, it's really just to try to bring as many people together as we can.

He doesn't have to have the ball all the time to do something well.

We took more resources into the plan than we probably needed to. As we go forward, we'll probably pull that out.

I went down and as I was going down, I knew exactly what was going to happen. I was either going to be raped, robbed or murdered.

Location is the prime thing we are selling.

Ladies of the community, even though they need the kitchen themselves sometimes, bring treats and cupcakes,

Like the rich man, they can have so many things right for so long and sometimes at the end they can lose it all because of one wrong decision.

Look at the stats. Look at the players.

St. Bernard's is a very good team. We simply couldn't execute or shoot the ball well.

Patrick came up with - 'the car's mine.' We said it doesn't mean anything to us. He started threatening us.

Part of professionalism extends to the quality of the shop's appearance.

I think what distinguishes this fair is the fact that everybody is involved -- city fathers, township trustees and the city workers even.

Jesus wanted the man to have the peace that his heart longed for, but the man could not have it because he was living for himself.

I think Egyptian authorities have not yet gotten the measure of the Sinai problem.

I think they're going to get bought out by somebody, ... Could be (a company) like Deutsche Telecom.

I thought it was a hotly contested game. I thought our guys battled hard, played hard throughout the whole game. ... It definitely was not a 16-point game.

I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.

I think Monty is one of the best big guys in the league. He can do so many things. He is long. He is athletic. When he plays with confidence and energy, he is as good as anyone.

I thought it was time to add a little humor.

I went to every game last year so I know who he is.

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

Laurie and Heather fit right into our group of specialists. Together, they have sold in excess of $120 million in area homes and land. Plainly, there is no one who knows the needs of these buyers and sellers better.

It is a very laborious process, but we feel accuracy is more important than expediency. I'm not going to apologize for taking our time and making sure we get it right.

I think AT&T should spend a little more time trying to figure out how not to lose net market share and try to slow the bleeding, ... (They should) try to rev up that side of the business without trying to bring in new services. That's still an issue for me as an investor.

Roberts pulled out of the 1998 Masters after breaking two ribs while sneezing. The sneeze 'sent me to my knees and I kind of felt something pop,' he reported. Wrote Golf Magazine columnist David Feherty: 'He was lucky. If it had been a (lower intestinal emission), he might have shattered his pelvis.'

Our schedule allows us to play our traditional local rivals, as well as some national powers, before we get into the conference schedule, ... We travel to Duke and Virginia Tech, play a full slate at the Garden and play in the Holiday Festival. This will give St. John's fans a great opportunity to follow our team, which features a lot of new faces this year.

Our businesses continue to perform well on all fronts, and we are encouraged by the results posted in the second quarter,

Our father always said, 'She'll come back to us,'

Our first priority is officer safety. The core principle behind a force decision is to use it in instances where officers lives or the lives of people around the scene are in danger. Certainly assault with a vehicle constitutes deadly harm.

I think probably it is very tough out there at the moment (for Skandia) with what has been going on,

I was home sick from work, ... I perked right up. It was strange. I was jumping around and telling everybody.

I think people are just thrilled that the beatings have stopped, ... is not at all an indication of a resurgence of demand.

It felt like family from the first time we talked,

I think that's a nice compliment to these guys and their effort. I like my team.

I think, unfortunately, this is going to go down in history as one of the great sporting gaffes of all time.

I think it's something we are going to have to monitor over the next two weeks to two months.

I think it was a misunderstanding with the cops. They think I live here.

I think this is uncharted territory. They've never had to practice during spring break, but they're happy they're going and ready to play.

I think we were fortunate to get the win tonight.

I think we will open a portion of the Alaskan wildlife refuge (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) to drilling, ... And we absolutely must address the need for additional refining capacity.

I thought our kids came out with a purpose. We did a good job of getting hands in the passing lane and keeping them off the glass.

I thought as the game progressed our intensity was pretty consistent. We made a lot of mistakes, but we kept after it. Our kids needed a game (after the holidays) and we're ready to go.

I thought as the game went on, our ball movement and player movement got better.

I thought Eugene Lawrence was unbelievable out there. He controlled everything that went on out there.

I thought we did a good job in the first half of staying with them, making plays when we had to make plays and defending pretty well. I thought in the second half we turned the ball over too much early and that led to baskets.

I think it's a real neat town, ... This is beautiful country.