Spider Robinson Quotes

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

Spider Robinson

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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kind
  • Hollywood
  • Fail

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Always

• It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Kind
  • Weird
  • Television

• Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Health
  • Dark

• Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Artist

• I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Guy

• When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Easy

• Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Confident

• I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

  

  Wale
  • Man
  • Fall
  • Never

• People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Clever

• The sun, that brave man, Comes through boughs that lie in wait, That brave man.Green and gloomy eyes In dark forms of the grass Run away.The good stars, Pale helms and spiky spurs, Run away.Fears of my bed, Fears of life and fears of death, Run away.That brave man comes up From below and walks without meditation, That brave man.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Guy

• I don't fall easy often I never had a love like you before.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Fall

• He left no time to regret,Kept his dick wet,With his same old safe bet.Me & my head high,And my tears dry,Get on without my guy.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Time
  • High
  • Guy

• The Jesuits use this kind of training, or, let's say it this way: The Jesuit General imposes this kind of structure; he encourages the young men to specialize. Because getting ten of them together, you have the best of everything. But this does not mean that this system is good for the Jesuits all over. They're all available to the cause.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Men
  • Together
  • Kind

• I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Years
  • Three
  • Europe

• This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Country
  • History
  • Understanding

• Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Day
  • Same

• Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Fall