Quotes About Ross

I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that's where you get 'Happy Birthday' from and 'Ross Capicchioni' from or you even get 'I'm Sorry' from.

He said the citizens worship a guy what massacred a dozen men and the cemetery owner ain't buried nobody in fifty years. I said okay where are we? Rube said son don't you get the drift? I shook my head. Rube leaned toward me. His voice was hoarse with horror. He said why boy we is in Hell!

He made a production out of answering her, marching around to her side of the car, carrying his belly in front of him like a gift.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

He knew exactly what thoughts—emotions, rather—would be filling Pakenham's breast. The same that would have been filling his own, had Ross still been in command. Doubts, hesitations, fears, second thoughts, quibbles, uncertainties—all those, Pakenham would be burning on the altar this very moment.

The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.

There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but I happen to have loved the Four Tops most of all.

We always loved that idea of the Amity feel in 'Jaws,' in a coastal town.

Ross's style is always beautifully matched to his material – spare, lean, honest, no gimmicks, and yet in its very simplicity setting up continuing echoes of the mind. (Margaret Laurence's Afterword)

My favorite style inspirations are between Rihanna and Diana Ross.

Jaws' was a big one. It's a classic. The shark not working while making that movie made it much better.

I had a trial run with Norman Ross for 21 years, from '61 to '82. I didn't have it in mind to open a chain like Harvey Norman. I opened one shop, but then the next thing you know, I've got another shop and then another shop.

Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first.

I thought wasn't nobody supposed to get gold records except those people on Motown, like Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross.

One of the only things I've regretted was saying yes to a TV special, 'Motown Mania,' and I said I'll sing you a Diana Ross song. It was just naff.

My ultimate beauty icon is Diana Ross.

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

I'm a fan of Lucha Underground and hope they are successful.

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.

Mrs Ross adjusted her veil but did not put the flask away... 'Why is this happening to us, Davenport? What does it mean - to kill your children? Kill them and then go in there and sing about it! What does that mean?' She wept-but angrily.

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.