James Robertson Quotations

No evidence of any Tyson Foods involvement in or concern about the USDA's proposal to require safe handling labels predated that announcement,

When you're relying on something that uses electrical power and someone to do maintenance on the thing ... if you have a power failure that takes the station out, you run the risk of sewage backing up into homes. By putting in a gravity line we won't have to rely on electrical power to transport sewage.

We do get quite a lot of reticence about it.

We have been hearing more than one story, but from my point of view, I believe that there is more than one factor at play here.

Even though I'm quite well established, it's not always easy to have a real security of income for the next two to three years. It gives me the freedom to experiment with form and style, and not just write a conventional novel. It gives me the breathing space and the time. They are trusting me on the basis of my track record to produce something of value and quality.

The subpoena served on Mr. Hubbell was the quintessential fishing expedition, ... The independent counsel freely admits that he was not investigating tax-related charges when he issued it.

South Africa's trade with China is growing at an annual compound rate of 26% compared with the compound annual decline of 26% in trade between South Africa and the US and the 4% drop between South Africa and the UK.

I tried to pull the guy out because the truck was on fire underneath. I broke the door down over on the driver's side. It was just too big and too much pinned in, I couldn't get him out.

it is undisputed a preliminary injunction would kill this merger.

These people have gone through so much, ... They need to rest, and they need to recuperate.

Smalltalk has type, but you can add message signatures of any sort to any object. Making something generic, to a very large extent, just means cloning the API.

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.

[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life,

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

This is my first time through this, and I didn't want to stop playing. The win means a lot, because we keep playing.