Diane Roberts Quotations

Winning feels great. Don't ask me the last time we won because I can't remember.

When you don't know the story of a place, it makes it much easier to destroy it. And so much of Florida is being destroyed because people don't credit it with having a history . . . Because it seems there's no story here, everything in Florida can be made new, and I think that's wrong and I think we harm ourselves irrevocably by destroying our history.

When she performs ... all eyes are on her. She has these signature skills that she does on the floor that no one else does.

When she has a good day, the Pirates have a good day.

I started writing about the Florida Legislature, and there are two possibilities for response to the Florida Legislature. One is weeping uncontrollably and jumping off a tall building, and the other is to laugh. So you might as well laugh.

All of her routines start at a 10.0. We worked long and hard during the summer to develop that.

I don't lecture any more; it bores people rigid. I read and I talk. After you teach college for a while, that becomes fairly easy to do. A formal lecture makes people sit up straight and feel like they need to take notes for an exam later, and I don't want them to feel that way.

This is a contradiction in terms, of course.