Role Quotes

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. (Arthur C. Clarke)
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. View quote
Grace Kelly
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. View quote
Susan Sontag
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. View quote
Norman Mailer
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. View quote
William Saroyan
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? View quote
Federico Fellini
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. View quote
Richard Perle
When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are. View quote
Bradley Whitford
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. View quote
Dean Acheson
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. (Lenny Bruce)
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. View quote
Dan Quayle
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. View quote
Irving Kristol
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem. View quote
Carroll Quigley
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. View quote
Noam Chomsky
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. View quote
John Lennon
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles. View quote
Anne Bancroft
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. View quote
Jane Goodall
Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food. (Jane Goodall)
At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country. View quote
Ragnar Frisch
In mainstream economic theory, the firm and the market are, for the most part, assumed to exist and are not themselves the subject of investigation. One result has been that the crucial role of the law in determining the activities carried out by the firm and in the market has been largely ignored. View quote
Ronald Coase
I'm no role model. View quote
Charles Barkley
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! View quote
Isabella Rossellini