The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.
— Robert Graham
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
— Robert Fortune
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
— Robert Delaunay
There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.
— Robert D. Hare
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.
— Robert Crais
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
— Robert Browning
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
— Robert Blair
Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.
— Robert Baden-Powell
There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending to be gay. I've had a lot of people to imitate. It's easy when you're British; we're camp by nature, anyway.
— Robbie Williams
As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now.
— Rob Gronkowski
I have a healthy competitive nature.
— Ridley Scott
I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
— Ricky Martin
Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.
— Rick Santelli
I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.
— Rick Derringer
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
— Richard Thompson
The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.
— Richard Smalley
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
— Richard Rohr
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
— Robert Fulghum
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Nature engenders the science of painting.
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.
— Robert Crumb
Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
— Robert Byrne
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
— Robert Bork
The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator's work.
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
— Robert B. Laughlin
The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.
— Rob Paulsen
I know I'm not going to book everything I go in on, and that's just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybody's story is different.
— Rob Brown
I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
— Ricky Williams
I guess it's human nature, as every group breaks into factions, yet at a time when we are trying to be taken seriously, it can confuse people - especially when it moves from being about where you want to go and what you want to do to why the others are idiots.
— Rick Tumlinson
I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
— Rick Rubin
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
— Richard Widmark
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. I'd say the problem is in the nature of the job ChromeOS is designed to do.
— Richard Stallman
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
— Richard Russo
I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature.
— Richard Preston
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
— Robert Frost
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
— Robert Crippen
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
— Robert Burton
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.
I'm a big believer in human nature.
— Robert Agostinelli
I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.
— Rob Lowe
It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.
— Rivers Cuomo
The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.
— Ricky Skaggs
Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.
— Rick Santorum
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.
— Rick Perlstein
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
— Richard Wagner
Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
