Robert Weinberg Quotes

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

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• I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Me
  • Fan
  • Mail

• We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Red
  • Birthday
  • Cake

• If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Person
  • Right
  • Process

• The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Individual

• The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Real
  • History
  • Characters

• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Architecture
  • Kill
  • Human intelligence

• If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets

  

  Farid al-Din Attar
  • Heart
  • Secrets
  • Atom

• Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Believe
  • Mines

• I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

  

  Gaelen Foley
  • Laughing
  • Pretending
  • Earnest

• I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

  

  Melissa Sue Anderson
  • Enjoy
  • Sufficient
  • Reserved

• I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

  

  Reem Acra
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Step

• I was competing in an IPC World Cup race, but the finish area was short and I came across the line with my head down and went straight through the fence. It was only because the Italian team doctor leapt out to grab me that I didn't smash through the café window.

  

  Heather Mills
  • IPC World Cup race
  • Italian team

• I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd probably write something in the science fiction vein, but I hesitated for a long while because it's such well-trod ground.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Something

• To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

  

  Nas
  • Version
  • Owning
  • Creatively

• Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • America
  • Opportunity

• You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Beautiful
  • Style
  • Forever

• If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.

  

  Deniz Gamze Erguven
  • Architecture
  • Impression
  • Seen

• Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Sports

• I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Editors

• Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

  

  Robert Weinberg
  • Editors
  • Appealed